first off, thank you in advance to all who share or have shared their knowledge with me, and good luck to anyone else.
My SYS:
celeron 686/512mb
Nvidia 32m video, M-audio Delta Audiophile 2496 soundcard
3 HD- 20g windows, 80g storage, 6g running "poor man's install"
My Probs:
Keeping up Appearances: I tried to "p.m.i." by saving just the image, but it was sketchy, so i installed an old HD and pmi'd the whole partition. Success!...kinda. i can change the desktop appearance and save the config, but if i install new software, add an icon to the tray, or similar, i am told "the knoppix config. could NOT be saved". Any ideas?
Sound Off!: My soundcard does not seem to recognize with ALSA or OSS, though the respective websites both claim to support the card. Sound comes from my onboard output just fine. OSS doesn't have any effect; ALSA sends an error message that the sound device could not be opened. An attept to load a licensed version of OSS resulted in an error that said i was not root. dammit. when i logged in root and attepmted again, i got an error that said the HD could not be written to ( the "read-only" box was NOT checked).
WHY WHY WHY!?: After the first attempt at p.m.i., i found that if i booted with full cheat codes (eg "knoppix home=/dev/hdd1 myconfig=/dev/hdd1 fromhd=/dev/hdd1") i would get a message stating "could not find the knoppix file sys,, am droping you to limited shell". less specific cheat codes ("home=scan fromhd" etc.) worked, so fine, but why?
i realize how many little things can make a big difference, and no user's experience will be identical, but any help is greatly appreciated. If you can't help, thanks for reading!