...yep! In fact, if you do this a lot you can make a small FAT partition on the HD and boot the floppy image from there. Much faster, especially if you don't have a floppy drive / can't boot from CD.

Code:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9962 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1       204   1638598+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2   *       205       206     16065   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           207       207      8032+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4           208      9962  78357037+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
--Use Partition magic or qtparted or whatever to resize, and create a small 1-or-2 cylinder partition. Type doesn't actually matter, it can say type 83 and still boot FAT.

' dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 bs=1M ' == Do this for your new partition to initialize with zeros
' dd if=/cdrom/knoppix/boot.img of=/dev/hda3 bs=1M ' == Copy the boot.img file from CD to the HD

--Now to boot Knoppix without using a floppy:
' activate /dev/hda 3 ' (the space is important! See "man activate") and reboot.

--To get things back to normal:
' activate /dev/hda 1 '. This sets the boot flag back to Windows. To activate the linux boot flag from DOS, use fdisk.

--Note: When Knoppix revs to a new release, you have to update the boot image! In that case, boot from CD or floppy at first and dd the boot.img file again.

--Now I realize this is a bit complicated, but it works for me. Klaus also did a neat thing and added a cheatcode, "fromhd" so you can boot the CD and it will look for poor man's install and run from there instead of using a boot floppy.

Quote Originally Posted by pnti
Thank you very much !

I guess that it is possible to start Knoppix copied to the hd using a boot floppy. Am I right?