Wait, hang on there...I haven't told you the entire story...

The laptop boots up Knoppix just fine. I tried it just now.

Reason why I didn't just backup from the laptop using the built in CD burner is because I wanted to save on CD's and use DVDs instead (Really bad choice there, considering how fast I'm going now)

It'd be intresting to know how to network these two together. Things would be much more efficient than it is now...