I have a laptop that uses an external, PCMCIA CD drive - the internal one busted a while back and doesn't read any data.

I'd like to make this machine a dual-boot 2K and Knoppix auditor machine, but BIOS boot menu doesn't support PCMCIA devices.

The laptop won't boot off of the CD at all, which is easy to get around with Windows boot disks (installed easily), but I've not found, nor do I know Linux well enough (hence my plea for HELP!) at making a Linux/Knoppix boot disk and getting it installed on my hard drives other partition.

I've installed the XOSL boot manager, which should do me fine once I get knoppix installed. It also doesn't support external PCMCIA bootups, otherwise I'd be all set right now.

I'm looking for info on how to make knoppix install/bootable floppy or floppies to get it on a hard drive. Heck, I've even considered installing it on another PC and ghosting the linux and swap partitions into my laptop to just get it done.

So please, have pity on a long-time Windows network admin who's learning Linux currently.

Thanks!

Rich