Hello
i recently downloaded knoppix 3.8.2 and then i decided to instal it as dual boot with my windows xp on my hard disk.

I downloaded flash video by iron geek to learn how to go ahead for installation and found it very helpful. I planned to instal knoppix on my first hard drive which i have divided into 3 partitions i.e C for windows XP,D for knoppix and E for my backup data.

I deleted partitiond D with partition magic so that I can recognize it during knoppix installation.

during the process of installing knoppix I created linux swap and root partitons with Qparted from knoppix to instal knoppix on it.

Proceeding ahead when I started installing knoppix i saw that it would give my whole hard drive in option where to instal knoppix instead of asking about knoppix partitions i had already created.I still accepted the option to choose the whole hard disk and to my astonishment it bagan formatting my whole hard drive but i immediately canceled it.

Now i am wondering if I had created partitions for knoppix on my D drive why won`t it pick up in the installtion process and ask me and would rather go ahead to format my whole hard drive? I was not asking it to consume my whole hard disk,rather i created partitons for it on my D drive ,then why would it try to format my whole hard disk?

plz help me clear this confusion.

thanks

regards.

lapel