Hi,

I need a little help installing Knoppix 3.2 version 5/21/03. I had originally started with 6 GB hard drive which turned out to be defective, so I have installed and config'd Knoppix 3.2 on it using reiserFS and left it disco'd in the bay as a rescue drive (if anything goes awry, which invariably it will, I only need to move the IDE cable and the power cable, and voila).

I bought a 40 GB WD brand spanking new drive, it may be because I got $20 mail-in rebate at Best Buy. Well, MS-DOG and WD are sleeping in bed together. My Commate S7AX motherboard from 6/30/98 didn't like the new drive, the BIOS that is. The board was "designed" for Win95, and I refused to upgrade after Win95B, so naturally I hit 32 GB limit head-on, trying to put a drive > 32 GB! BIOS would not recognize it. After a couple of restless nights, I've jumpered pins 5&6 and 3&4 as Single (Master) on primary IDE, also installed Memorex CD-R/W as master and CD-ROM as slave, on the 2nd IDE. I had to install the software that came with the drive and acknowledge zer License Agreement, otherwise I could not use it, but first I had to set BIOS to a quasi-default User 1023 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors (leaving zeros for other fields if you should find them). After installing a driver for the drive, if that makes any sense, I was prompted for a boot disk. Inserted Win95 disk and kaboom, I have to upgrade to Winduhs ME or XP to use the drive, that was the message WD had in there, which means I have to spend $200 to get a full blown version, fo'get about upgrading, mate. And of course, 3 finger salute to restart the system. I ditched all that with one finger salute and installed SUSE 8.2 Pro instead.

SUSE is using GRUB as the boot loader, and I'm using about 4% of the drive capacity, how do I install Knoppix 3.2 alongside it? Do I create a seperate partition and config GRUB? I've worked exclusively with LILO up until now, and I've found that Debian and SUSE are the most worthy flavors of Linux. SUSE is using reiserFS as default. WOW! The learning curve is a winding road, the foot-print is something of 6 GB worth of software, including digital video editing and a flight sim. I could not locate /etc/resolv.conf or config dial-up just yet. I'm in the FAQ for the next several nights.

Regards,

Joseph Schiller