Gazelle,

There is just as much performance gain with bootfrom as there is with fromhd. After the initial stuff is got from the CD it then boots the main file from the hard drive. Of course, there is perfomance gain during usage as well because things come off the hard drive faster than the CD. You still have the decompression routines to do but that is all.

It would be nice if you tried your cut down CD to boot a cloop file from the hard drive and see if it works. I appreciate getting the cloop file on the hard drive in the first place may be a bit difficult if the CD will not copy - may need a 1GB Flash drive or external drive ...

If using bootfrom with the .iso file DOES work with XP I wonder if the original reason for your problem was because the .iso file was in the wrong directory. Stick it in a c:\KNOPPIX directory and use cheatcode bootfrom=/dev/hda1. I did not suggest this before because I wanted to provide information I know works. I am not sure about this.


Other reasons for freeing the CD drive. It makes a noise when it is revolving!

Really I don't want to use the CD Drive at all but as I said previously I don't have the access rights to create a Poor Man's Install so I have to boot from the CD. I use bootfrom rather than fromhd because that is all that works (on NT at least).

ICPUG