hi, i need some help with this.
i read most of what i could find on google (mostly from this form) and managed to burn the
knoppix 3.8 cd (witch works great on other systems!), install grub.exe, etc.

setup:
Toshiba 7200 laptop, 10GB HD, single 10GB FAT32 partition, "working" dos/win98, no floppy drive,
128 MB USB drive works in windows, Sony PCMCIA cd-rom works in windows (not in dos)
dosu not boot from cd-rom.

done so far: (over the last 2 1/2 days)
-booted win98, copied all files form knoppix 3.8 cd to c:/knoppix/
-copied grub.exe to c:/
-copies all files in c:/knoppix/knoppix and c:/knoppix/boot to c:/boot
becouse is read that grub has som problems with directories.
-copied the 700mb knoppix file also to c:\ (just in case)

-c:\boot\grub\menu.lst containing:
title knoppix 3.8
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init bootfrom=/dev/hda1 BOOT_IMAGE=KNOPPIX nodma
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
boot

problem:
i start the laptop, pres F8 to boot windows in ms-dos-only mode, start grub.exe, select "knoppix 3.8"
knoppix boots ok, ("welcome", etc.) then scans drives, then reports "no knoppix filesystem found"

(what i would like to do once i get knoppix running:)
-mount the drive as r/w
-shrink the partition to about 5GB