Hi guys I have a quick question. I have knoppix 5.1 on dvd which I use to boot from dvd and play around with sometime. However I am unhappy with the speed at which it takes to spin up the dvd everytime I want to access something. I also wanted to try out some other distros on my harddrive. Be aware I currently have XP as my main OS, Is there anyway I can install, say, fedora core to another partition and then boot to it with my knoppix dvd (at the boot screen). I DO NOT want to install a linux boot loader because I know how much of a pain it can be to remove if I want to get rid of linux later on. Thanks guys!

Removing a bootloader isn't really that much of a pain. You just insert the windoze cd and hit repair.
But, if you really want to install a linux distro without a bootloader, I think it would be easier to make a boot floppy with grub or lilo... I think this is how you do it with grub: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/gru...faq.en.html#q4

If you have the Windows install disk, then restoring the mbr is trivial. Also, you can simply put GRUB on a floppy.

If the Knoppix boot disk allows you to stop GRUB and enter manual commands, you also do it that way. I don't recall it displaying a GRUB menu, but it's been a while.

I think you can also use something like the ultimate boot CD.

AND--you can simply install another drive and put GRUB on the mbr of that drive. Then the mbr on the Windows drive will be untouched.

The problem lies in that I do not have a floppy drive and windows needs one to install my serial ata drivers for my harddrive, so everytime I have to wipe the mbr windows will need the sata drivers before it will rediscover windows, which means I have to go pull one out of another computer and hook it up.

hmm, then I guess you could also make a bootable cd with grub http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...le-CD-ROM.html
Haven't tried that myself... but it should work ok...