Quote Originally Posted by dfa
hi stephen,

so, if i've got this straight: as root, sudo qtparted to resize the 30Gb down to 1 - 7Gb primary partition for the windows ME os, and a second primary partition for the knoppix / (minimum 2.2gb), an extended partition with a 256 Mb (logical) swap partition, and a, say, 3.0 GB logical partition for /home. does that arrangement seem reasonable?

thanks again for your reply.

dave[/b]
You would just reduce the size of the ME partition by 7GB to ~23gb then create the partitions for knoppix in the freed up 7gb of space this would be the easiest and still leave plenty of space for ME. If you reduce the size of the ME partition too far then you will have problems if you try to download any ISO images windows needs twice the space of the file for a 650mb ISO you need at least 1.3gb of free space plus space for the windows swap file so it is always nice to have at least 2gb free on windows if you plan on downloading more ISO's in windows.