Really simple newbie question about dual booting... 7103

Ok, Mr. Yossairan-Catch 22 :): here's an interim progress (or lack thereof) report. Yesterday night I attempted to defeat the Catch 22: I installed Fedora with grub in the Fedora parbreastion (that would be hdb2, in my case). Then re-booted with Knoppix 4.02. Then tried to create the grub bootable cdr as per the link you provided.

As was to be expected, the instructions there weren't 100% accurate (for example the file stage2eltorito that you are instructed to copy is not in the directory mentioned in the link but in a Fedora directory called redhat, etc). When I tried to copy that file to a newly created iso directory, I discovered that Knoppix boots up in a read-only mode. The only way to defeat that is to launch a root terminal session, but that requires a pbuttword I didn't have, etc., etc. (as I said, Newbie). When I eventually figured out how to bypbutt all those issues, I ran into the ultimate problem of having to use the same CD-DVD drive in which the Knoppix DVDR resides for burning the iso image to be used for booting... And, wouldn't you know it, Knoppix, for some strange reason, refused to allow its own DVDR to be ejected from the drive so I could insert a blank CDR. At which point I gave up in disgust and called it a night.

Next time I'll try to do the same thing in another computer that has 2 drives but no Linux parbreastion, and then copy the stage2eltorito file from the Knoppix directory in which it resides into the ramdisk created by Knoppix....

Stay tuned.