was wondering if i could get a full installation of knoppix on a laptop with a pcmcia cdrom and no floppy drive.

i've read through many posts but i don't think find any with the exact same problem.

i read somewhere that "Smart Boot Manager" can boot from pcmcia cdrom's so i tried that but i couldn't get it to detect the cdrom ( i probably have to fiddle with the I/O port settings ) . so i guess thats out of the question.

oh yeah . . i have xp installed on ntfs and winME on fat. i can access the Knoppix CD through windows and its connected to the internet so i can download stuff like w32grub,etc.

i've read some posts which suggest i copy the files from the CD to the fat partition and setup w32grub someway so that it boots from the knoppix dir in fat. i haven't tried this yet, i'll do it if no other better suggestions come my way. if i do it this way, knoppix still isn't installed right ? its still compressed .. so how do i do a full installation with pcmcia cdrom and no floppy ?

thanks in advance.