Very impressed with Knoppix 3.6 - thanks are due to everyone involved, and to the posters on these forums.

Managed to do full HD install on 2nd hard disc, set up Lilo for Linux24, Linux26, and Win98 - all working fine. Want to be able to run PMI (copy of /KNOPPIX from CD to root directory of device, renamed as K36d to distinguish from the CD version) from a USB stick, but machine cannot boot from USB. Can boot it from floppy and it 'finds' the USB PMI ok. Is it possible to set up Lilo so that I can select an option to run USB PMI from the Lilo boot screen without using floppies?

I thought that I might be able to put linux24 and minirt24.gz somewhere on hda or hdb, and use an "append" to tell knoppix to look for the USB directory? I assumed I had to make the same directory structure as on the CD. I first tried a dummy run on hdb1 (Win98 partition) to see if I could get PMI to run from a hard disc from Lilo, but Lilo rejected this entry in the .conf file:

other=/dev/hdb1
image=/K36d/boot/isolinux/linux24
label="Knoppix 3.6"
initrd=/K36d/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
append="ramdisk_size=100000 lang=uk apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi #hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce "
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Is it ever possible to use Lilo to initiate PMI?

If so, any pointer to the relevant directory structure would be helpful. I could probably work out the Lilo.conf entries from there.

Once again, many thanks to everybody, in so many threads, which I found useful before taking the plunge!

Islander