Installing Knoppix on the same hd with MD9.1

[preater]

I am a noobie, so would you please explain how I would go about creating another partition for Knoppix. I do want to keep MD9.1.

I've just done this - with Mandrake & Knoppix on the same disk. But I keep spare space free for testing new distros and general messing about, so there was no problem - I made sure to tell knx-hdinstall to not overwrite my MBR with LILO, and added an option in Mandrake's LILO to boot it.

Without the luxury of spare space, you need to resize a partition to make some free space (I used 4GB for Knoppix). You can use GNU Parted for this, but be warned it is not for the faint of heart. If you are at all unsure about what you're doing, and can't afford to lose your Mandrake install then don't do it.

If you have a Windoze installation you could also try Partition Magic or similar to do the same thing... if they can resize ext2 or whatever your Mandrake uses, non-destructively. I forget. Good luck!

Andrew Preater