The HD Install HOWTO says "Be sure the root partition is the first partition on the drive, is formatted with ext2 or ext3." Is this correct? It makes dual installations with WinXP impossible, because WinXP must be in the first partition.

Other Linux flavours such as SuSE are happy to be installed in extended partitions, i.e, the second or higher partition on the drive.

I would like to move from
hda1 WinXP system FAT
hda5 Data FAT
hda6 Data FAT

to

hda1 WinXP system FAT
hda5 Data FAT
hda6 Knoppix system ext2
hda7 Knoppix swap swp

Is there something specific to Knoppix or knoppix-installer (or the related partitioning package) that prevents me from doing this?