I have installed knoppix on my laptop, and all is great! I am now at my "main" computer (dell desktop) have qparted the drive and was able to create a nice swap for debian. (Dual boot computer) The main 8 gig parition is labeled "hidden".

1. How do make the parition visible so that I can write to it?

2. Beside the point a little, I've downloaed a netinst for Debian Sarge. Do you think that will be a reasonable install?

I thank you all for your suport, and wish to gain my skills quickly so that I can help others!
Lilguru