From Wsms

Installing Knoppix to your hard disk

Before starting, partition your hard disk with fdisk or something. Then format your new partitions:

root@Knoppix:~# mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
...
root@Knoppix:~# mke2fs -j /dev/hda3
...
root@Knoppix:~# mkswap /dev/hda2
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2056314 kB
no label, UUID=d5a50472-6a6e-47c5-a900-a88f89f14cca

Launch the install:

root@Knoppix:~# knoppix-installer

Which gives you:

Click on OK to get to:

Click on OK to select the installation type:

In this case, I left the setting on debian, then clicked Next to get to the screen for choosing the install partition:

I left hda1 selected and clicked on next to get to dialog for choosing the file system type:

Select ext3 and click next to get to the space for entering your name:

Click next to make a user name:

Click next:

You can either show the characters or not. Click next to re-enter the password. Then next to enter the root password:

As before you can hide the text if you want to. Click next and reenter the root password. Click next to get to set the hostname:

Click next:

Spelect the MBR, click next to get back to the main install window:

Select Start Install and click Next which takes you to a summary page:

Click Next to start the install:

Copying the files takes about twenty minutes on my machine. Eventually, you get to some other dialog boxes that come and go automatically, including this one: