I'm a complete newbie to the Linux world. I purchased a book named "Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye" and played with the attached Knoppix disk. BAM! I was hooked. Linux was beautiful. I also liked the idea that I had access to hda1 (windows) and hda5 (a partition that I later installed Mandrake 9.2)
Here's the problem. Now that I'm using Mandrake, I'm not able to access my windows partition, (unless I log in as root, but even then, I'm only able to read and execute). I want total access, so that I may be able to pass files from Windows My Documents, ect... to my files in Linux.
As I said before, Knoppix allowed this, but the downer was that I had to run it from CD (which takes up my CD-ROM drive).
Can I load Knoppix onto my partion instead of Mandrake, and will I have the same "open" capabilities of accessing both my partions, as I did with the Knoppix CD?
Also, as a newbie, how do I exactly, install Knoppix onto my partion, instaed of Mandrake?