Sorry about that last post...desperation and cold medicine will do that to a person. The problem is I'm pretty new to this. I've found a few step-by-step walkthroughs and tried to follow them, but they all seem to require having both a floppy drive and cd drive installed simultaneously (for instance, needing the floppy drive to make a boot disk from that is required in a later step). I suppose the real problem I'm having lies with the boot loader. I've actually got both WinXP and Knoppix installed right now, it's just that I can't access Knoppix. I've got the windows version of GRUB installed and when I turn the computer on it has me choose between WinXP and GRUB, but I don't know how to configure GRUB to access my Knoppix install. I've got the hard drive partitioned using the utility packaged in with the Knoppix HDD install as follows....hda1 - 10001.95MB WinXP install; hda2 - 402.56MB Linux swap partition; hda3 - 9599.39MB Knoppix install partition. So really, the problem I'm having is with using a bootloader. I tried GRUB, but when I try to boot that, the system stalls with the message GRUB Loading stage2.... on the screen. I'm not expecting to find a fix for that on this board. What I was hoping to find is a step-by-step boot-loader installation that will work in my situation.
Specifically, I've been attempting the directions posted at http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...er=asc&start=0