FYI:

I had a Virus infection in XP to thank for my reinstalling my system as a dual-boot.

Regardless of what they say about partitioning Windows and creating a dual-boot system it's easy if you start with a totally blank HD.

1> Nuke everything with the Qparted Live-CD

2> Create a NTFS partition taking up the first half of the HD.

3> Reinstall Windows. Then it detects the existing partition install into it (let XP do a total full reformat of it) rather then use the entire HD.

4> Install the Debian Net small cd install and let it create the needed file systems in the remaining free space.

5> Boot a Knoppix Live-CD (Prefer the 5.11 Live-CD or 5.3.1 Live-DVD) 6.0 is a bummer.

6> Do a Konsole terminal > SU > knoppix-installer and let it install over the Debian created file-system.


Note: Step 4 is inportant. The Knoppix-installer script has to see a existing Linux partition on your HD to overwrite. Otherwize it will try to partition the entire HD nuking your Windows install.

Reminder - Partition #1 - Windows XP
Partition #2 - Linux

You might be able to have Qparted Live-CD create the needed linux partitions before the "knoppix-installer" script is run.
If you know how please add the info to this post.

My HD is a 40GB one with a 20GB NTFS partition and a 20GB Debian one latter to be repartitioned under Knoppix-installer.