Quote Originally Posted by kurtz25
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!
Hi, kurt25! Another newbie here,... I managed to get a Debian system installed after several attempts, but have been struggling to get it right ever since trying to work the bugs out. (Mainly, hardware issues.)

Here's a general description of how I got it to work on my system: Boot from CD. Make sure the HD is mounted on the desktop (you need to specifically mount it). Go to the properties, and tweak those to make the HD writeable for everyone. Start up QPARTED from the K menu, and mess with the partitions. Shut it down completely to powered off. (I had problems, during one attempt where I tried just rebooting without powering down completely.) Power back up, booting off CD. Now, use your Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a terminal window. Try your installation from there. It'll probably try to get you to repartition. Go with the flow. Let it start up the cfdisk program, then try to exit as if you actually made changes (but, don't make changes). Hopefully, this will get you into the rest of the installation routines, like it did for me.

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