Variations of Poor Mans Pivot Root Methods:

I've been thinking about this method

knoppix root=/dev/hda5 noinitrd ro

using Loadlin.exe. to either boot to a CD or my own HD.

This is how I boot to my HD now and to the original CD if I want.

If I can boot to my own HD installation, why couldn't I also boot to a DVD with my uncompressed partition copied to it?

The same DVD could also have the c:\Knoppix directory copied to the DVD, to be put on the target computer to boot the DVD. The batch file Loadlin runs would be modified if necessary to make everything work on the target computer.

Since I really don't want to remaster CDs to distribute them, and just want to run my own installation on another computer that I have in mind, (which happens to have a DVD player in it) why wouldn't this work?

sakiZ