Quote Originally Posted by DrakeBS
wait, so theres no way i can install knoppix on this comp just because my first partition is nfts?
That's absolutely incorrect. Any of the 4 partitions is as good as any other. Even MS doesn't look at the partition table in the same order in all it's OS's - sometimes it reads the table "top down" and yet other OSs read it "Bottom up". NTFS in the first or any partition will have no effect on you whatsoever, just don't try to write to that ntfs partition with Knoppix.

This is not, however, in any way a recommendation that Knoppix should be installed to hard disk. I am of the school that Debian should be installed to hard disk, Knoppix should be run from Live CD. But if you read through this forum and are aware of the issues that you face then you should make your own choices about that.