I appologize for asking such question(s) if this is the wrong area to do it in. -- But if anyone could help me out, I would be most appreciative. Thank you in advance.

1) I know that an installation to the HDD can be started from the bootable knoppix CD, but am a little unsure of a few things. First off, will the installation to HDD automatically create a swap partition and new primary partition (or should that be done seperately in linux or windows-- and in what format? ext2?) and.. Second off, will the installation allow me to keep any existing partitions (say if I wanted to keep 1 non bootable primary NTFS partition) ; or will all the partition tables be wiped out?

2) Is it better in your respected opinion to install knoppix to HDD and "add to it", or to use the Debian Linux distro in a networked enviroment?

3) Is there any automation in knoppix to update the KDE enviroment with any patches; etc?

Thank You,
Tim