Quote Originally Posted by fannymites
Thanks, sorry for the frustrated rant. Just out of interest, could I use the kernel source from my Gentoo cd?
If it a standard kernel. (Sometimes kernels are altered to fit the distro)

kernel.org might be a good place to look if otherwise

Also I'd much rather use the config program that comes with the kernel.

Just cd to the kernel source and type make xconfig.

Of course your going to need programs to do the compiling but I think knoppix comes with them. If not the 2.6 kernels need the qt3 dev files (you can get them with apt-get)