When I fix the bios to boot on CD ROM, I have the Knoppix CD in. I see the lights on the CDROM that means its reading it, but then after a while it just goes back to my windows boot page.


My Goal:
To run linux with Windows Xp.

Currently all space is allocated to Windows. I have partition magic so I can install linux. I have not partition the drive yet, but wanted to make sure the boot cd worked before i did.

I have 80gig harddrive. I want to try out linux, but I will mostly use windows. My idea of partition will be:
Primary Windows 75gigs
Linux 4gigs
Swap 400mb.



I am a total Linux Newbie so be easy on me