Quote Originally Posted by thors_hammer123
I have Knoppix 3.3 installed on my computer. I chose the Knoppix-style installation, I would have prefered the Debian-style installation but for some reason the installer would hang.
Now I have several annoyances that I have to deal with, and would really love to fix them if possible
1) No login prompt: The system logins as knoppix user by default. I looked into the KDE Login Manager, but no dice.
2) Automatic hardware detection: This is nice for a LiveCD, but gets really annoying after a while if your distro is installed on your HD and nothing is changing from one bootup to the next. I would like at the least to have all my hard drives mounted and set to read-write (instead of read-only) a boot.

Any suggestions?

TIA!
To mount your drive rw automatically, edit /etc/fstab change 'noauto' to auto & add umask=000 which will allow read/write for all users:
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
Note this is for a vfat drive , yours may be different.
Since you have a knoppix type install you will then have to edit /etc/lilo.conf adding 'nofstab' to the 'append=' line to prevent knoppix from overwriting it with each boot. Don't forget to rerun lilo to implement the changes.
You could also add another boot option with knoppix 2 in the append line to boot up in terminal mode.
You can edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig to bypass some of the autodetection if you want but do it at your own risk! The startup sequence is the three files in /etc/rcS.d:knoppix-autoconfig, knoppix-hd-config, mountall.sh. Edit as much as you dare. I usually fiddle until I've broken it then regret the last move.