Quote Originally Posted by AllParadox
Robert: Thank you very much for taking the time to read and respond to my post.
No problem.

Quote Originally Posted by AllParadox
I did as you suggested, and ran the command:

true ; ( set -x
cat /etc/knoppix-version
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
sudo fdisk -l /dev/hd?
) >& result.txt
Nice. Lots of good information in there.

So you're running Knoppix 4.0.2. The drive is 20 GB and is on /dev/hde. That's odd but not a problem. My guess is that you have some kind of extra IDE card. The drive has four partitions on it: one win98 partition and three linux partitions, two of those formatted as ext3. Odd that Knoppix doesn't recognize the filesystem on /dev/hde2. /dev/hda is probably the CD-ROM. BTW, I'm assume you are booting using the CD-ROM.

How married are you to the current setup? The reason I ask is because as a first simple pass I'd recommend a different layout which means destroying the existing layout. Here's what I'd try just to see if things work for you:

1) use fdisk to remove partitions 2, 3, and 4 on /dev/hde
2) use fdisk to create /dev/hde2 with ~1 GB as a linux partition
3) format /dev/hde2 as ext3 (e.g. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hde2)
4) create a persistent disk image on /dev/hde2, 100 MB, (e.g. knoppix-mkimage and choose /dev/hde2)
5) reboot and when it asks about the persistent image, choose OK

If you do the above steps, are you able to use the persistent disk image?

Let us know how things go, what works and what doesn't.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org