Hello,

Newbie problem I'm afraid...

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800 (Celeron 800 with 15Gb). Win XP with FAT32

Knoppix works fine if I start with DMA - otherwise it hangs on /etc/ in the startup script.

Unfortunately with DMA enabled no HD is recognised. When I try to add a persistent home on dev/hda I get the problem that "a filesystem must be specified" yet there seems nowhere to specify a filesystem.

I read another post here where HD wasn't found but that seemed to be a problem with a HD exceeding 40Gb.

I followed instructions in that post & ran sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda and get some info, incl (with apologies for proportional font):-

DEvice Boot ... ID System
/dev/hda1 * c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

then I ran

dmseg | grep hda

This gives various info including:-

ide_setup: hda-scsi
IDE0: bm-dma AT 0XEFF0-0XEFF7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio

and also

hda: unknown partition table.

Sorry to be lost!

Rob