i am new to knoppix as well and have a few questions..

1) what are the consequences of partitioning your hard drive?
2) if you partition, will you lose data/windows OS?
3) is it possible to partition your hard drive for both windows and knoppix?
4) some tips on configuring a cable bluetooth lan (wireless-b usb adapters) w/o partitioning, or at least connecting to the internet via knoppix live-cd, so that i'm confident an undoable repartition (if that devastating) won't result in my having to reformat just in order to get back online, and so if a partition is necessary to install knoppix to hard drive, i already know how to set it up.. practicing a network setup, in other words, if possible from live-cd..

any help is greatly appreciated