Well -

I just saw a reply to my other post that may work for you. You can use memdisk to point GRUB directly at a boot floppy image file (which should be among the files you copy over to your HD from the CD) - then there is no need to have a floppy drive at all to extract the image file to. Look for the section that mentions memdisk:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6329

If you don't like that, there has got to be a utility out there that will take a floppy image and give you the files in it directly to your HD without having to actually use a floppy. I just don't know a specific place for you to look for one.

If you can't find such a utility and you'd like me to email you the files from the boot floppy I can do that. Private message me w/ the email address you want me to send them to. I have no idea if it will work, but I guess it's worth a shot.