ok, so this is one of those half baked ideas I get sometimes(no drugs involved), kinda like the idea I had that my brother should try making KD in his coffee maker when he didn't have an oven or microwave at university....

First of all.. this would only possible work on machines with 256MB ram+... which isn't really a problem these days.
anyway, what I'm thinking is, use one of the mini knoppix distros that are about 200MB that go on the mini-cdrs. when knoppix boots up, it copies the compressed ISO image onto the ramdisk, and unmounts the cd drive, so it would be running completely from RAM. This has a couple of advantages, namely that it would run faster, and you would be able to use your CD drive.

So.. anyone know if this would be possible?