hey thanks!

i tried linux noscsi nodde nousb without specifying the screen resolution and it worked fine! however i couldn't get internet connection anymore. my question is, since i disabled these hardware auto-detection during booting, can i manually detect them again after knoppix is loaded? i'm actually a complete newbie to linux, and still needs to learn more about the system, so at this stage i just need to know if i can do that or not...

oh as to the hard drive install; does that mean i could just install debian instead of knoppix?

have a good weekend