Quote Originally Posted by bender
... not very clever ... mkfloppy.bat costs just some bytes on CD ...
Although you don't know it, the problem is more than just that. As opposed to SBM, the Knoppix boot diskette contained the actual Linux kernel. It booted from floppy and then the Linux kernel loaded the rest of Linux (just as it does when it is booted from CD). But because of bloat, the Kernel no longer fits on a single floppy.