Quote Originally Posted by uber
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What I don't understand is if it can read from NTFS shouldn't it be able to boot from it? I mean wouldn't booting just involve a read action? Would booting from the iso require writing of any temp files to the hda1?
I'm with you, uber. When Knoppix boots from the CD it doesn't write anything to the hard drive, and so it should be when booting from an .iso file on the hard drive. Having said that, I haven't been able to boot Knoppix from the .iso file on my hard drive either, but the Knoppix .iso is not in the "C" partition, and also I haven't renamed it.

Also, perhaps the ability to access NTFS partition is not in the basic stuff loaded into RAM during boot? In other words, maybe it's a chicken-or-egg problem: you have to load the whole Linux kernel into RAM in order to access an NTFS partition. Unfortunately I don't know. Sorry.