Hi all,

I'm using Knoppix 3.9 as a live CD to recover data from a botched Win98 machine (OS boots but then explorer.exe crashes at a critical point, preventing further boot progress) by moving it from the local FAT32 hdd (one partition) to a Windows file share on another machine using SMB. I have run into a few problems, so I would really appreciate it if someone more experienced could give me a hand.

Knoppix boots but then I am told 96MB RAM is insufficient for KDE & it asks me whether I want to create a swap file on the drive. Now, maybe I'm comitting one of my trademark blunders but when I press <Enter> with Ok highlighted, I get sent back to the same dialog without warnings/errors. If I press Ok again, same thing happens.. repeat until inf. If I press <Enter> on Cancel it boots into a different windowing system. Why is it that it cannot create a swap file on a FAT32 drive?

Once I am in this other windowing system, i notice that there is a /mnt/hda1 but when I open it, it's empty. I know the drive hasn't been wiped because I can still boot Windows from it (kinda). Do I need to explictly mount it? If so, then what is hda1? Could someone help?

Thanks,

Alex