Well, I am in exactly the same boat, but I can't seem to get it to work.

I have un-checked "Read Only" in the "Device" tab of the Properties dialog within KDE for each partition I have (3 total). But when I run it from the Ctrl-Alt-F2 terminal, it gives me the "Opened disk is read only - you have no permission to write" error.

I have also tried it from the "Root Shell" window in KDE, which gives me a shiny pretty UI, and opens "Parted," the disk manager app. In that application, I created a 512MB primary "Linux-swap" partition, and a 3GB (the rest of the hard drive) primary FAT32 partition and committed the changes. They appear to have stuck, as if I go into that application again, the partitions still have those attributes.

After I am done in that application, I don't know what to do... I think I'm supposed to just quit and then run knoppix-installer again, and it is supposed to no longer tell me I need to partition my hard drive. But when I run knoppix-installer again, I just end up at the same place.

I feel like I'm making some really dumb mistake since other people are getting it to install just fine.

Can anyone give me some advice? I really really like Knoppix and would like to just install it as-is rather than starting from a base of Debian.

Thanks!