It took me a little time, to gestate what Harry Kuhman was saying, Maybe, I am just "following mother", I guess I could admit to that, but, you even pointed out something, that, I dont think you realized ...

Well Doh! Klaus has outright stated this. People seem to insist on installing from the live CD, but why remains a mystery. One theory is that it's the mother duck syndrome. It's the first Linux that people see when they hatch, so they follow it like a duck follows it's mother. Perhaps if people accepted Knoppix as what it is, a fantastic Live CD distribution that has really led the way in the Linux world in automatic configuration. and when they are ready to install on a hard drive use something like Debain that is intended for hard drive install, they would be much better off.
Automatic configuration - CrashedAgain even pointed out that these "other" Distro's, the ones "intended" on being hard drive installed, dont do this, and the user, or installer, is left up to doing ALL of this themselves. I am sorry, but, this may be the real reason why people see Kanotix as an aternative, doesnt IT still keep the "auto configuration"? Or, has it lost that in its "translation" to being closer to Sid?

I agree with CrashedAgain, but, then again, I dont have any "war wounds" from any other Distro, I saw Knoppix, and then realized I could install it, and did. I have since learned, what you can, and cant do, with it this way, I live with those complications...

I can not be sure of this, but, I think Harry and CrashedAgain both "hit on" what the "kernel patches" are, the ones that I had to include when I compiled my kernel from source... The features that make Knoppix what it is, and the exclusion of these sources, would, possibly, make the kernel, not Knoppix - automatic configuration -=- this HAS to be what those patches are all about, they make the kernel what Knoppix is "known" for, and it appears, the only Linux that can say this... ( Unless, as I will be proved on a later post, Kanotix still contains these features )

I have seriously considered going to Kanotix, but, I guess I am truely a "duck", and have kept loyal, and faithful, to my "mother". I have become accustomed to what I know, and enjoy that accustomation. I fear change, to go out in the world on "my own", and I fear for my system, who must make that journey, with me.

Since we have a devoted Kanotix runner here, can you allieveate some of my concerns, on this change???

*** Can Kanotix support "dial-up"? I have heard that it no longer has this support.
*** Can Kanotix support my "current" Knoppix home partition? On the last Knoppix hard drive install, I went with a seperate partition scheme for root, and for /home.
*** Can Kanotix run the 2.6.6 kernel? I have come to use, and appreciate this faster kernel.
*** Can Kanotix support auto-configuration of my hardware devices? I dont want to spend six weeks trying to get help to get my hardware working. i.e. video, sound, etc...

Last thought, doesnt Kanotix require downloading the "sources" from the Linux kernel site? And does it "also" require a "patch" from Kanotix to make it "Kanotix", or am I just not thinking straight here????