I have a PXE server on my network so I can easily boot Linux live images and tools when fixing computers. Knoppix 7.2 however is unable to load a network driver on most PCs (it only works with Intel E1000 NICs) after following the standard procedure:

1. Copy the DVD image’s contents to an NFS server
2. Boot the DVD
3. sudo knoppix-terminalserver, follow the assistant and select all network drivers
4. Copy the contents of /tftpboot to your PXE server and add something like this to your pxelinux config:

   DEFAULT knoppix
    TIMEOUT 2
    PROMPT 2
   
    LABEL knoppix
    MENU LABEL Knoppix 7.2
    kernel knoppix72/boot/pxelinux/linux
    append nfsdir=192.168.200.25:/data/shares/tftpboot/knoppix72 nodhcp lang=de ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init apm=power-off nomce loglevel=1 initrd=knoppix72/boot/pxelinux/miniroot.gz libata.force=noncq tz=localtime lang=de apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

To fix the network driver issue, apply the following diff before running sudo knoppix-terminalserver:

--- /KNOPPIX/usr/sbin/knoppix-terminalserver 2013-02-12 04:21:16.000000000 +0000
 +++ /usr/sbin/knoppix-terminalserver 2013-09-30 18:52:16.055233746 +0000
 @@ -281,8 +281,7 @@
 mkdir -p "${MINIROOT}/static"

 # Check if we need the Kernel 2.6 insmod
 -INSMOD=""
 -case "$KERNEL" in 2.6.*) INSMOD=/sbin/insmod ;; esac
 +INSMOD=/sbin/insmod

 # Unfortunately, these are not integrated in ash-knoppix yet, so we need some shared
 # libs. :-(
 @@ -326,6 +325,7 @@
 for i in $MODULES; do
 awk -F: '{if($1~/'"$i"'/) {print $2}}' /lib/modules/$KERNEL/modules.dep
 done | sort | uniq | while read module relax; do [ -n "$module" ] && cp /lib/modules/$KERNEL/"$module" "${MINIROOT}/modules/net/00_${module##*/}"; done
 +cp /lib/modules/$KERNEL/kernel/drivers/pps/pps_core.ko "${MINIROOT}/modules/net/00_0_pps_core.ko"

 #umount "${MINIROOT}"
 #dd if="$RAMDISK" bs=${MINISIZE}k count=1 | gzip -9v > "${MINIROOT}.gz"