Quote Originally Posted by Mustang64
Thank you Monkeyman

I don't have a 5 1/4 on this computer, but I do have a "removable hard drive" (I think it is called a Zip drive).
Could the Knoppix CD installation program be seeing this as the second hard drive (hdb) and giving me the error?

What would happen if I loaded a disk/cartridge into it? Do you think it would be recognised then?

Thanks for the reply - I only get about one hour a day to play with this...

Thanks again...
Yes, that would be it. I figured there had to be something that didn't show up in the HP specs. It is a known issue with Knoppix that it has problems with Zip drives if a formatted disk isn't in the drive at boot.