Quote Originally Posted by ockham23
Did you boot off the Knoppix cd without clicking on any of the hard drive icons on the desktop?
Now you have a good question there, I do not remember if I did or did not open up the hdb6 icon. Is this important ?

Did you enter "su" as first command?
I can answer yes to this


Is your existing Ubuntu install located on hdb6 = 6th partition on the secondary hard drive?
yes again....