I redid the partitions and then formatted them with Reiserfs. I then selected the packages to be installed. None of the packages could be installed. After waiting quite a while I got messages saying, for example, xxx program had problems do you want to continue. There was a message for every package apparently.
Sorry to jump into this late, but I'm about as confused as Richard is (and since I live 8 time zones west of Richard, perhaps it's time for me to pop in so he can go to dinner).
"xxx program had problems do you want to continue" is not an example. It is a paraphrase, and rather an uninformative one. Does the message really say nothing more informative than "had problems"? Does it really call each a "program", not a "package"? I doubt it ... I recall Knoppix as a Debian derivative, and the Debian style of messages is very different from what you are reporting ... but the best way to tell is to see an actual, complete example.
I haven't installed Knoppix here, so I'm fishing a bit to think of what might be causing problems.
Does the install kernel support Reiserfs out of the box? Might the root (/) partition need to be ext2 or ext3, for example? Or might you need to load a kernel module before doing package installation?
Technically, Linux users do not "format" partitions ... we create partitions with fdisk (or a relative) and put filesystems on them with mke2fs (or the one appropriate for your filesystem type). Did you do both steps?
Please describe the steps you are taking a bit more exactly, provide actual examples of error messages, and give us the structure of the system (such as the output of "df" and "uname -a" and "ls -l /" ... at this point, the description is so vague that I'm not really sure what else to ask for).
PS - Kernels have names like 2.6.4 and 2.4.x, not 2.64 and 2.4x.
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