Quote Originally Posted by dakky21
any advices by the way?
The advice is amazingly simple. If you have a 4.5 gig drive (which is tiny by any modern standards), don't make yourself look foolish by calling 8 gig massive and certainly don't try to install a Knoppix DVD that intentionally comes with a lot of software that you will never use. Install Debian. The install will be much more stable than a Knoppix install. Then install from the Internet any and all packages that you would like, but leave out the ones that you don't want or would never use. You'll likely find that the 4.5 gig disk is more than enough space and even leaves you with plenty of extra space to download additional packages that you might have an interest in but did not fit on the DVD. Or you can add free things that the licensing didn't premit redistribution of, which would also keep it off the DVD.

Given that you have already figured out that you can't insall the Knoppix DVD, and that if you install the Knoppix CD things are likely to break as soon as you install anything else, why not at least try installing a distro that is actually intended for hard disk install?