Hello,

I finally got Knoppix and want to get it onto my HD. I have read various explanations to do -- the easiest using a floppy.

My notebook doesnt have a floppy and i am not ready (yet) to get a USB floppy drive, so i cant do this rawrite thing of the boot.img onto A:

I also can not do the HD install thing, because i don't have 2.5G minimum available for uncompressed knoppix.

I have about 1.2GB space available and would like the Knoppix image to sit on my HD in its compressed format (750MB).


I have prepared a boot partition 63MB and a swap partition 128MB and an empty logical partition 1G on my harddrive. My primary partition is currently still running win95, and i have Partition magic installed.

So my question, is there a way to get linux booting without a floppy from my HD. Also, i have stumbled over LOADLIN, can i use it, somehow, to get the linux image loading.


thank you

Daniel