Installation tips When you boot up the Knoppix CD, a browser window pops up with a link to the software's FAQ, which includes instructions for installing Knoppix on the hard disk. Don't follow them! If you do, you will install the German version of the software even though you booted from an English version of the CD. If you follow the instructions in the FAQ you can still convert the system to English, but to do so you have to change the locale setting in a number of places using a German interface.

Instead of following the installation instructions in the FAQ, go to the Knoppix section in the menu, run the root shell and type:

knx-hdinstall

This command invokes an easy-to-understand menu that allows you to partition your disk. It asks you to select the hard disk on which you would like to install the software; hda is the first IDE hard disk and hdb is the second, while if you have SCSI hard disks its sda and sdb. The partitioning tool, cfdisk, is fairly easy to use, but be sure you know what you are doing before you write your partition table to the disk or you may mess up your system and lose your existing data. Create a swap partition size of double the amount of memory in your machine but at least 256MB.