Thanks for the info.

If I do exactly that, I get the same error. That's what I've always done, btw, up to the Debian package part (the last time I tried the Debian way, it was unable to work with lilo.conf and I found it less confusing to do it myself instead of answering the post-isntall script's questions). Well, that and I used xconfig instead of menuconfig, but both produce the same error.

I've reinstalled knoppix again, this time with the install script included on the cd instead of the new-web-version script.

What gets me is that I was able to do it the first time - but not since...it makes no sense to me, except that maybe that my cd went bad and the install script is forgiving of errors...

I even swapped cd-rom drives and reinstalled!

Btw, I thought that the kernel headers were only needed if you grabbed a binary kernel, in case some app wants to compile and use them? I thought compiling made your own kernel headers - in any case, I tried it both ways, same error.