I had been using knoppix 3.3 on my homebulit 1 Ghz athlon. I recently purchased the linuxtag 3.5 DVD, and installed it to HD. It's great but I have this problem in that I can't stop knoppix from re-installing my hard drive partition icons everytime I re-boot.
I have used the kde control center and the configure desktop menu. I can uncheck "hard drive partitions" both mounted and unmounted but it doesn't matter. When I boot up again all those partitons are back again. The only way I can stop them from loading using the configure desktop tool is by unchecking "show icons on desktop" but then no icons i.e. floppy, cdrom ,ect are available. It's strange because setting up my desktop the way I wanted it in 3.3 worked.
Not for this more recent knoppix it seems.
I am usually running the 2.4.26 kernel. The same thing occurs in the 2.6.6 kernel though.