I appologise if this information is posted elsewhere. I did not see it when I looked.

Using "IGNORE_CHECK=1 sudo knoppix-installer"

The answer to our problem was that the IGNORE_CHECK variable was not being passed from the knoppix user shell to the su shell. Therefore, if you are needing to use the variable, you will need to either export the variable, or enter su before setting the variable. We used the standard "export IGNORE_CHECK", and it worked. We also entered su "sudo -i" and then executed the line "IGNORE_CHECK=1 knoppix-installer".

Which begs the question of why I had to use the IGNORE_CHECK in the first place. As stated before, an intel D945GNT with a Maxtor 80GB SATA drive, fairly vanilla. I sense that the code is having problems with SATA. I tried every configuration I could think of, including re-partitioning and using a different motherboard and hard drive. "cfdisk" seemed to work ok, the only unusual occurance I noticed was that I could not set the type to "linux". I would choose type 83, but it always made the type "Linux EXT3". So I booted the Knoppix v3.7 disk, set it and it was fine. Although, v5.0 still refused to install unless I used the ignore.

In any case, we now have it installed on the hard drive.

Thanks,

Jerry