sorry, its bin awhile since ive bin at my computer.
i respect the fact that even the most expert linux users seem to discourage the HD installation of knoppix, but, one of the main reasons that i chose knoppix was because it is so user unfriendly, it forces you to research and find out for yourself and is constanty presenting you with new problems to tackle. i breifly tried fedora8 core but i found it a little too user friendly so i switched to knoppix. knoppix is the first linux distro that i have properly played around with, sadly my laptop has the intel/pro wireless 3945 ABG etc etc wireless card which is not supported by knoppix but following the (very complicated may i add) instructions i managed to pach my kernel and make, install drivers etc untill knoppix finally reconised my wireless card, but due to being a linux noob i have yet to connect to my wireless network (any help on this matter would be greatly apprechiated). neway, back to the matter at hand,

I run windows xp as my main system, installed on a 30G NTFS partition, i also have both a 10G and a 40G NFTS partition which i use soley in windows. I installed knoppix to a 20G partition that i formated to ext3 (which shows up in knoppix as reisurfs; im not sure why, maybee its normal, like i said im a linux noob) and i have a 2G linux swap partition that knoppix uses. when i boot into knoppix and access the root partion (20G ext3/reisurfs) i can read but i cant write to it, my main aim at the moment is to change the grub loaders menu.lst file so i can add a few boot cheatcodes to it, but so far i can open it, but i get a write permissions error when i try to save my changes.

BTW, when i installed knoppix to HD, i chose the "knoppix like installation" purely because it was the most familiar to me at the time. I hope that this info helps.

i await your reply with anticipation.

brad

EDIT: at the time that i first began my knoppix adventures, i was unaware of 5.3.1, but i will almost certanly upgrade asap, but at the moment i have no data that i dont veiw as 'disposable' and so will continue to use 5.1.1 untill i can be bothered to download and burn 5.3.1

EDIT: at boot, fscheck says the filesystem seems mounted as read only, but when i view the menu.lst file that it uses, the rw cheatcode is at the end of the kernel so surely it should mount it as read and write