Hi, thanks for this great board, I decided to finally dive into Linux and for this purpose to dedicate my old Laptop, Celeron 400 Mhz 64M Ram entirely to Knoppix, that means a HD install. The live CD works without problems (with swap file) but very slow, so I definitely want it on the HD - here is my problem:

I formatted my harddisk (with windows 98 cdrom) because I thought this would be enough preparation to install Knoppix. Of course I was wrong since knoppix asks for special partitioning. So I tried it with Qparted and cfdisk, which also didnt work, it didnt write my new partitions (hda1: Linux bootable hda2: Linux swap) for some reasons, maybe I just didnt use the programs right but I dont think so - it always stayed on windows fat32.

So I went radical and wiped the complete HD with zeros, as suggested in another thread. But now of course I couldnt even start Knoppix with KDE because I needed a DOS Swap file (because of low RAM) - but no problem, there still is the shell.

So I finally tried to make partitions with fdisk, which finally worked, but still the knoppix installer says that there are not the appropriate partitions. So I am confused, what does the partitioning has to look like with fdisk so that the install is possible?

I have it something like that: /dev/hda1 bootable Linux from Cylinder 1 to Cylinder 500
/dev/hda2 Linux swap from Cylinder 501 to Cylinder 726


The HD has 6GB.

Am I gone totally wrong??? If so please tell me! I have no idea, no experience with Linux and any suggestion would be highly appreciated! Thanks!