Installation of Knoppix (which is essentially Debian distribution of GNU/Linux) is 
as simple as installing Window$ so don't worry.

I have tried to give as much information as possible here incase sonething is missing
or is incorrect please feel free to contact me. As far as partitioning is considered 
I have given a minimum necessary scheme. Fairly complex schemes are possible.


Good luck with this!!!

Step 1. Boot your m/c from knoppix CD.

Step 2. Immediately after booting from CD knoppix will ask you for 
	boot parameters, here just press enter or you can press F2 and look 
	up the parameters kernel takes and give the once necessary for your 
	hardware usually this is not needed.

Step 3. Knoppix will detect all your hardware, and initialise the necessary
	drivers. (You do nothing for this to happen :-D)

Step 4. By default knoppix will start KDE for you.(If you dont understand, 
	this is the name of the Graphical User Interface) now once you are here
	open a console. On the task bar you should be able to see no of icons
	click on the icon who's tooltip says "konsole". Doing so will open up
	a window with a command prompt in it.

Step 5. In here type command "sudo /usr/local/bin/knx-hdinstall" This will start 
	the installation script. Complete installation will need around 2.5 GB
	of hard disk space (That is so because knoppix installs everything even
	the kitchen sink.;-))

NOTE:	If the command in step 5 fails. then type "locate knx-hdinstall" at the
	command prompt. this will tell you where knx-hdinstall script is located
	use that path instead of the above mentioned path.

Step 6	Now that the installation program has got going get your self a cup of 
	cofee or tea. After Install script asks you couple of questions. It will
	start cfdisk for you so that you can partition your hard disk. Here mouse
	will not work. Use Up and Down arrow keys to scroll across the list of 
	partitions and Right and Left arrow keys scrolling through the menu which is
	present at the bottom of the screen. You will not be able to see your 
	windows partitions as C: D: etc since partitions are named differently in Linux.
	You will have to recognise them based on there sizes.

Step 7.	Now delete the partition where you want to install knoppix. for that scroll to
	that partition and just select delete from the bottom menu and press enter.
	You will see that the partitions has been deleted, and a new entry which says
	free space has appeared.

Step 8.	Now you are ready to create the partitions necessary for knoppix whoosh!!
	You will need to create two partitions. one is a very small partition called
	swap partition, and another will be the large partions called root partition
	where knoppix will install itself. 
	Creating Swap partition: Scroll down to the Free Space and Select new. Enter 
	the size of the partition this should not be greater than 256MB so you can max
	it at 256 MB. Then press enter. It will ask from where to create the partition 
	select "begining" here. Now select this newly created partition.
	Select Type from the menu on the next screen you will see a list of file system 
	types CFDisk can initialise for you, there you type "82 " at the prompt this is 
	the id for swap filesystem.
	Creating root partition: Here again select the Free Space entry and select new,
	press enter accept what ever size it reccomends. Again create the partition 
	from the begining of the free space. This time you don't need to change the 
	file system type.

Step 9	Now select write and press enter. Your new partition table information will be
	written to the hard disk. viola !!!! now smile :-D but don't quit "cfdisk" yet.
	Before 	proceeding note down name's of the partitions and what is it's 
	"FS Type" you will need this info later.

Step 10	select quit to quit from the CFDISK program.  

Step 12	After this step knoppix will ask you to which file system type to install choose 
	any one of it. 
INFO:	ext2 File system is an old work horse i.e. It's tested and proven
	ext3, Reiserfs and xfs are new but Journaling filesystems. I will prefer one 
	of these. 

Step 13	On the next prompt it will ask you which partition do you want to mount as swap and 
	which partition do you want to mount as root or "/" select the appropriate 
	partition on this screen. Hope noted these things as instructed in step  9.

Step 14	Installation will start copying necessary files to your harddisk. This should take
	20 - 40 minuites depending on your m/c. Now is the time for that cofee ;-)
	(hope it has not become cold.). 


After this Installation will ask you few more questions like root password and password 
for user knoppix. enter your selection at both the prompts. And then if you want to start
some of the networking s/w and so on. For a Home PC you can answer no to these propmts.

After install script exits grace fully your system should be ready for a reboot. Reboot 
it and you will see a lilo propmpt where all your partitions will be listed. select the 
Linux label and there you go.

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