I'm on a pentium 90 or 133 mhz not quite sure which /w 32 mb ram and 1.5 free hdd space, I'd like to run linux on it, I'm downloading the knoppix iso, but i've got one prob... I have no cdrom and the floppy is very picky about wat disks it reads. Is there a way to put the iso on a partition and boot from it? or is there another distro i can use that'll start at install in win95 then finish after rebooting?

I suspect that once you copy the contents of Knoppix's compressed root filesystem it'll be much more than 1.5GB, so some other stripped-down distro might be a better choice (unless you leave it compressed). But still, the hardware specs for that box seem too low for running Knoppix. I think you should try something like Puppy Linux instead, which is sort of made for this kind of hardware. I don't know if it comes with a way to install it from Windows onto its own partition, although it should be easy to find-out with some quick Googling. I know there's programs which will install Puppy onto your Windows partition, though.