On my XP hd, I used partition magic to split it up and give myself an ex2 partition and a linux swap.. everything went great. The knoppix install noticed it fine, but after the configuration (and I begin to install), I am prompted with the following:

"Error: Formatting of failed. Some messages from mkfs.ex3: usage mkfs.ex3 [..." (etc..)

Well I read a bit more and then attempted to use qtparted in Knoppix to format the linux ex2 partition and make it ex3. All went well and I went to the console to again attempt to install. Same error.

I'm not quite sure whats wrong with my partitions. I've tried simply having no actual partition set and just have unallocated space, but Knoppix wont partition (gives some "cannot write" error). The partitions in both PM and qt seem to work just fine, except when it gets to the actual process of copying the files over. WHy is knoppix attempting to format anyway? It should already be up and ready for the files to just copy over, right?