Well, I finally have a chance to try Linux without messing up my laptop. I have few questions though:

1. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or when I logout, my screen is all messed up. Nothing is legible on the screen. All I see are lines and colors and dots. Why is this happening? My laptop has a nVidia GeForce4 440 Go card and the max resolution I set when using Knoppix is 1400x1050.

2. My laptop does not come with built-in floppy drive and I don't want to install Knoppix on my hard-drive, so, my question is, can I save the configuration on a directory in my Windows partition? Or, is there a way to save configuration on a local HDD?

Thank you for your help.