I'm using the Knoppmyth bootable cd, which goes ok untill I get to the bit where I slelect manual install.

Here I only get two options quit and partition hda.

I select patition, then I get a response say "read only drive" "no permission to write"

Or something along those lines.

Currently installed is winxp, which I was planning on just writing over the top of.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers

Greg

First off, why manual install? That's certainly going about it the hard way! If you choose Automatic, it will partition your disk and install Myth nicely.

Second, you didn't mention anything about your hardware. We have issues with installing on SATA as the root drive, for instance. Or installing where the CDROM isn't the master drive on the secondary controller and the install disk is the master on the primary controller.

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Manual install because I didn't want to lose all the data on hda, with the auto install option it says it's going to wipe all the data.

I've gotten around the original problem of it rocognizing the partition table by using partition magic to partition my 4 seperate partitions. / swap /cache and /myth

I've now gone back to the install disc and I can see the partition that I've setup. I can select to install to it under option 1.

When option 2 is selected it wanst to reformat, which is ok, but then comes up with an error. No idea on what.

Looks like it wants the entire disk to itself, not a problem but a bit of a pain in the back side.

The hdd is primary master IDE. The cd-rom is on secondary master.

The system is pentium 4 2.8 on an intel mobo, can't remember which.

I was hoping that it was going to dual boot, but it doesn't look like it plays well

Long ago I wanted to do myth with fedora and multiboot on one machine, have a linux distro to play with etc. It is SO much easier to buy a second drive if you have the room, and just have the ability to choose which drive to boot in the setup screen. Then just let knoppmyth have its way on its own drive. Once you get Knoppmyth running then maybe you could try punishing yourself with multi partitioning:). With this r5a22 release I am amazed I can get to the point of seeing an off air pix within 15 minutes of starting an install. Now, if I get it to change channels, not fade to black, lock up..sigh. This is all due to my being noob to linux, so just trying to help others while trolling the forums for info.

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KnoppMyth just isn't set up for the dual-boot thing. It's more of a set top box thing. If your heart is really set on dual-booting you may want to look at a different solution than KnoppMyth.

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Dual Boot or even tripple boot can be done. See my post
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 9&start=15
just skip the windows part