I have a laptop with a PCMCIA cd-rom (can't directly boot from). Knoppix supposedly has a boot floppy that can be made from within Knoppix ('mkbootfloppy'). This command/file is not present in Knoppix 3.8

There is a command/file 'mkboot', but I get an error telling me there is not enough space on the floppy and writing to /tmp/something or other.

Does anyone know how to make the required floppies under knoppix3.8?

Have you tried either "mkbootdisk" or "makebootdisk"?

You can also use knoppix-customize to extract the floppy image from the CD and then write it to a disk:
$ knoppix-customize --image knoppix.iso --action export_floppy --local_file boot.img
$ dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k

neither of those files are present on the knoppix 3.8 cd--only /mkboot. I did try rawwriting the floppy kernel but I get the "booting directly from floppy no longer supported--use a boot loading program" message.
I'm not sure what writing the cd bootfile to a floppy is going to do since I need to ultimately boot knoppix from the cd-rom.