Hi there, I just want to make sure I know what I'm doing before I start. As you might have guessed, I've not done this before :P.

When I run knoppix-install, this will sort out partitioning for me, right? I mean, I don't need to do this in qtparted beforehand, do I?

Secondly, if knoppix-install will do the partitioning, will it do it in such a way that if I already have a Windows XP partition, I'll be able to keep that, or will it format the whole drive or something?

Basically what I'm asking is: When I run knoppix-install, am I going to accidentally lose everything on my hard drive? . Let me explain in a little more detail what I currently have and what I want to achieve.

I have a 150GB drive, which currently has a Windows XP partition taking up the entire drive. I imagine I probably need to resize this in qtparted before running knoppix-install (or can this be done within knoppix-install?). I then want to make a 40GB or so partition for Linux.

What should I do with qtparted before running knoppix-install?

Also, would I be correct when I say that since I have 1024MB RAM, I will not need a swap partition?

Hope I didn't ask too many silly questions in this post, but I'm quite eager not to screw up and lose my XP partition. I've got lots of it all backed up but it would be a major pain in the arse to make a mess of this :P

Thanks for any help - it will be much appreciated I assure you