Quote Originally Posted by HaroldK
The install required the foreknowledge that you are supposed to install at least a 2.5 gig / partition and a 256 k swap (and understand what that means.) Those instructions still remain fuzzy due to the residual Unix-priests who never wrote an instruction lesson for real people.
It's complaints like this that make me wonder what people expect and why they don't just do a little reading first. Here are two links to documentation stating exactly what you claimed was not written:
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They are both accessible from this site. In fact I'd like to point out that the second link is actually a sticky on the hdd install forum- the very same forum that you posted this very post in. How ironic is that?

The installer is dumped to an Fdisk screen to figure out with no hints what is needed to format the disk for Linux. Luckily I had tried to install Debian from a Debian disk pack, Red Hat Linux and Mandrake on several machines, so I understood what was happening. The Unix-world programmers are still caught in the engineer world where verbose means give almost enough info to give a hint to look elsewhere for where the information might be.
How about instead of bitching you propose a solution, a suggestion, a way that it would be easier for you to get Knoppix installed. There is an 'Ideas' forum as well.

Did you know that you are welcome to add whatever you like to the wiki? That's right- it's created by the users of Knoppix for users of Knoppix.