Quote Originally Posted by garrincha
By the way, I just want to install to HD simply because it will work slightly faster and the CD-ROM drive in the Pentium machine is quite noisy!
You'll actually learn a lot in doing a Debian install and working with it. The new install is pretty clean, should not be any harder than installing Knoppix. You will have to install the appliactions that you want (ones included with Knoppix or others), but with a network connection this is as easy as typing "apt-get package-name", and it lets you have exactly the packages that you want and wil use. Of course it will be faster than running from CD-ROM, you can update packages as needed, and your CD drive will be available for use under Debian, amoung other benefits.