A big plus for Knoppix 4.0 is that if your computer is heavy on RAM, you do not need the swap partition. I have 1G RAM installed and have had no issue with no swap partition. You would do well to use Partition Magic in a Windows environment to set up the partiton first with FAT32, then reformat to ext2 or 3, and then let Knoppix reformat it to its default choice. PM always adds two small 101meg partitions that confuse the issue inless you go the route described. I have no idea why, but I keeo getting errors generated when trying to install knoppix without pre-prep with PM. I still let Knoppix reformat the linux partition/partitions though. You would think the program is a bit Irish, like my wife, and has to do the thing its own way.