Quote Originally Posted by bilzer
If I raise the number in lilo wouldn't I need also to change /etc/fstab to the new number?
Yes. I think OErjan is spot on. I suggest that once you've booted from the knoppix cd, you run "sudo cfdisk" (from a command prompt). This will show you your new partition numbers after having inserted a new fat32 one. You can then mount your original HD root (/mnt/hdaN), carefully review and adapt its /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab files, and finally rerun "lilo -v".