HD Install :: non boot from cd

..thanks for the help about the image etc.. since i'm living with a
..parallel port cd-rom which is non bootable but works in DOS i go
..for the "poor man's" installation and copy the "KNOPPIX" folder
..over to my c:drive and boot with the floppy disk ..which works
..(says the wiki) >>here are the (original) steps

1st_boot up with your old operating system.

2nd_insert the DSL livecd disk.

3rd_copy the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX

NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD USE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS FOR THE
DIR NAME AND FILE NAME

4th_reboot your computer using the DSL boot floppy.

It should find the "KNOPPIX" file on your hard drive and boot into
DSL. This is known as a "Poorman's Install" of DSL to your hard
drive with boot floppy.

Note that this will propably not work with Windows NT/2000/XP,
since they are using the NTFS file system on he hard disk.

cheers ..lets go

That's probably a good alternative approach if the SBM floppy doesn't work. I may try that myself on a 486dx2 with 8MB ram (which cannot handle a live CD.

Did the SBM floppy fail to see your parallel CDROM?

..nope, it didn't see the parallel forces
of compact disk read only memory :-)

..and if anybody does stuff with ms-dos
again. freedos can format drives in fat32

Why bother with a floppy ? install Grub4Dos and you will be able to boot the .iso directly from your FAT partition.

Later you can use Grub4Dos as your default boot loader to load Windows, Linux, Dos, FreeBSD, .iso boot cd images, .img\ima boot floppy images and more...

original here.