pandamonium54
07-14-2004, 07:36 AM
The laptop is only going to be running Linux, but I do plan to share files with WinXP computers. Anyway, I want to do a harddrive installation...
I've created a 20GB primary partition, set it as bootable. By default, the filesystem is set to Linux.
Then I created a logical 768MB linux swap partition.
The remaining space was partitioned as NTFS.
I then wrote the partition table to the drive. When I exit the partition tool, I get this message:
"The installer detected that the installation requirements are not fullfilled yet.
Please make sure that you have an free partition with at least 2 GB to install knoppix on. Also we need a swap partition with at least 128 MB, if you don't have 512 MB Memory or more.
In the following menu, you can [...]"
What requirements haven't I met?? I'm just using the partitioning tool supplied with knoppix-installer if that helps. (I can't start qtparted)
I've created a 20GB primary partition, set it as bootable. By default, the filesystem is set to Linux.
Then I created a logical 768MB linux swap partition.
The remaining space was partitioned as NTFS.
I then wrote the partition table to the drive. When I exit the partition tool, I get this message:
"The installer detected that the installation requirements are not fullfilled yet.
Please make sure that you have an free partition with at least 2 GB to install knoppix on. Also we need a swap partition with at least 128 MB, if you don't have 512 MB Memory or more.
In the following menu, you can [...]"
What requirements haven't I met?? I'm just using the partitioning tool supplied with knoppix-installer if that helps. (I can't start qtparted)