Quote Originally Posted by garyng
just copy the big 700M file from the CD to c:\knoppix\ so it becomes c:\knoppix\knoppix and boot with the CD-ROM.

I am assuming your c: is FAT, if it is NTFS this won't work(well may be it would work as the cloop may have been recoded to cope with NTFS, haven't tested that for a long time).
I'm aware of this workaround, but was not aware that it would work with my NTFS partition. I will give it a shot later.