Hi,

I am trying to install Knoppix to my hard drive. The hard disk is emtpy. I have booted with the Knoppix CD and gone to the console. I have made sure that I have a swap partition (hda2, 510MB, primary, type 82) and a main boot partition (hda1, type 83, bootable) that I created with cfdisk.

Whenever I type knoppix-installer I get a window with the following message:

"The installer detected that the installation requirements are not fullfilled yet. Please make sure that you have a free partition with at least 2GB to install Knoppix on. Also we need a swap partition with at least 128MB, if you don't have 512MB memory or more. In the following menu, you can start some tools to partition your hard drive."

I click OK and get the following window:

"1. Partition - Partition the hard disk
2. Quit - Quit the program"

I choose option 1 and then get the following window:

"() hds QUANTUM FIREBALL lct10 10 (10.2626 GB)"

I click NEXT and then I always get the following message:

"Opened disk read only - you have no permission to write"

Followed by:

"Cannot read disk drive. Press any key to continue"

I haver tried installed using the: IGNORE_CHECK=1 sudo knoppix-installer but as soon as I start to install I get an error window saying:

"Error: Formatting of failed: Some messages from mkfs.ext3: Usage: mkfs.ext3 [-c:-t:-l filename] [-b block-size] [-f fragment size] [-i bytes-per-inode] [-j] [-J journal-options] [-N number-of-inodes] [-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [o-creator-os] [-g

What am I doing wrong?

Can someone please help me?

MadDoc,