Hi, I tried Knoppix and got it working, everything was fine, there were just a few things I would change, but that's not the point of this post :P

I'd like to try a HD install of this spiffy OS. I think I have enough disk space to pull it off, but having read a few of the guides it seems like Knoppix needs its own partition. At this point I have my 80GB hard drive partitioned as follows:

C: drive - contains windows XP, essential programs, has 9.95 GB left of 18.5 GB
E: drive - contains downloads, music, backups of old PC, 3.53 gb of 18.5 GB left
F: drive - contains my games , has 5.16 GB of 18.5 GB left
G: drive - contains images, movies, some buisiness programs. has 1.70 GB left of 18.8

BTW, all drives are NTFS, but this should not be a problem, since I've got Knoppix 3.4 with capture-ntfs.

So I really still have about 20 GB of unused space. Is there any way I can use some of my unused space to install Knoppix/Debian on? If possible, I don't want to lose the data on any of my discs, except maybe games which can be easily reinstalled. I was thinking about backing up the important stuff on my games drive onto a seperate drive(shouldn't take much space, just savegames and stuff), deleting the F: partition, and creating a new Knoppix partition.

Most of my games should work fine under Linux, my favorites are UT2K4, Neverwinter Nights, which run natively under Linux, and Steam, which supposedly runs fine under WineX/Cedego. All I would really have to worry about is getting my video card to work properly, but that's a different thread :P Also, I can still boot to Windows XP to play some games who don't like Linux, right?

Finally, if anyone has any REALLY basic FAQs or documents on Linux/Debian/Knoppix, it would be really useful, most of the docs I'm reading assume that you understand the command line fairly well, and I'm still trying to catch on to what all these crazy commands they are using really do :P

So advice as to how I should proceed with this would be very much appreciated.