This is how I got bootfrom to work on my Windows NT machine, where the file system is also NTFS.

1) Using Windows make a directory c:\KNOPPIX (caps important)

2) copy the CLOOP file from a Knoppix CD that has had the ISO file burnt to it to this directory:

copy d:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX c:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX

(if d is your CD-ROM drive)

3) Use the CD to boot up but give the following command line:

knoppix26 bootfrom=/dev/hda1

This will boot into the 2.6 Kernel. Nothing else would work with Windows NT. Cannot use Kernel 2.4 - Cannot use the ISO - only the CLOOP file. Whether Windows XP is any different I don't know. I progressed to Poor Mans Install to a Windows partition by the time I had XP - which is much better. Don't need a CD to boot up with then!

Does Bootfrom have a purpose?

Yes it does. I cannot do a Poor Man's on my NT machine, because it is at work and I do not have write access to the boot.ini file to change it! Using the CD and bootfrom is the only way I have!

Hope that helps.

ICPUG