Hi,

I've been trying to install Knoppix 3.2 5/3/03 release on the hard drive to no avail. The 'knx-hdinstall' script fails while cfdisk is trying to repartition the hard drive. I've started with 6 GB drive divided into 3 partitions, primary DOS 2GB each. I've tried to create 500 MB swap and 3.5 GB root, however, mkfs generated an error "attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root directory." Now I can't boot from CD, I'm getting pdcraid error reading superblock and htpraid error reading superblock. At one point even BIOS could not detect the hard drive. After booting back into Windows95, I tried fdisk to delete the non-DOS partition. Booted again Knoppix from CD, but now launching the script, cfdisk cannot read the hard drive at all, I get 0 MB and not able to detect the swap partition, the script fails. Now, I realized that I should have created 256 MB swap and 2 ext2 partitions for the install. What should I use to repartition the drive? Any suggestions? I don't have a copy of Partition Magic.

Regards,

Joseph Schiller