WC> You DON'T have to as root. There's a icon in KDE's desktop
 WC> for your various devices.
 WC> Open the icon and mount it.
 WC> On installation you're prompted which partitions and devices
 WC>  you want mounted as root user.

 BB> tried some hints from the Knoppix FAQ and some other stuff off the net
 BB> was well re mounting things, but I can't get it to work.

At this point I've given up on getting this installation to work.:)  I'll 
see if Tom does any better with Mandrake.   :) 

 WC> How much RAM do you have?
 WC> I just interupted the boot with the ESC key, selected boot
 WC> from CD and it loaded right up into RAM.
 WC> Around the third or forth time I loaded it I
 WC> ran the script to load it to the hard drive.
 WC> I've an H.P. Pavilion Pentium 433 from 1998 with 256 meg of RAM,
 WC> LG CD-ROM drive and external Practical Peripherals hardware modem.

196 megs been scanned in depth with two different programs.

This is a older box - AMDK6/400, 196 megs ram, zip drive, cdrw drive, 
floppy and a 4 gig HD devoted to Lx alone - no dual boot.n

 WC> Did you create a swap file as well or did it bomb out before that
 WC> option appeared?


I didn't do that as I didn't know exactly what to do. :)  I skipped that 
part figuring 196 megs should at least get it up and running?


 
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