Installing Knoppix

KNOPPIX is a system that will boot directly from CD and not touch the hard drive. Thus it can be booted on Windows machines without damaging Windows.

KNOPPIX (as of version 3.3) will also allow you to install a disk image. To do this you need to open a command shell and type: kxn-install. The KNOPPIX CD contains 2.2GB of compressed data and these will be copied to the hard drive in a bootable format.

KNOPPIX is based on Debian so once you have it installed you can use apt-get to download and install new packages.