Qemu and Knoppix question

[jro]

I am trying to use Knoppix 3.8 directly from my hard drive but I am having some issues. First I unpacked the ISO to my hard drive so all the files are there and readable. Here is the bat file that I am trying to use to run the KNOPPIX image file:

start qemu.exe -L . -m 1024 -cdrom \\.\c:\Knoppix\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX -hda \\.\c: -hdachs 14070,16,63 -user-net -enable-audio -localtime

The knoppix image file is located at c:\Knoppix\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX, this is essentially the bat file that came with the CDROM with some modifications to run off the hard drive. When I run the bat file I get this error:

Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
FATAL: Could not read the boot disk

It almost sounds like qemu doesn't have permission to read the image file. But I have set it to be the most liberal permissions I know how to on Windows. I am not sure what to do from here, any one have any ideas? Suggestions I could try?

Let me know if you need more information.

[Fatal Error]

3.8 or 3.8.1?

[jro]

3.8 the version CeBit version

[Fatal Error]

Never tried that, did ya go to the Knoppix forums?

I can't seem to log on to linuxfoo at the moment. But someone wants to know how to run knoppix-for-windows from hard disk.

To do this, copy the 'iso' file to disk . Then also copy the contents of the qemu* directory to disk. Then in the 'bat' file in the qemu* directory, there is a line (commented out) showing how to make qemu 'boot' an iso file.

This works.

Now all I need is someone to make one of these into a screen saver. 'Leave your windows alone for a couple of minutes, it boots Linux'

Chris