Quote Originally Posted by NewGuy
new Dell box w/o OS
Does that mean your new computer came without an operating system? If that's correct, is the hard drive in it formatted? If not, that would be a reason that Knoppix doesn't "see" it. (Knoppix has a good command-line tool named "cfdisk" that you can use to format it, and a GUI-based tool named "QTParted" that you can use to format it.)

If your network card is connected to a router, all you might have to do to get it working is go to the Knoppix menu and select "Network/Internet > Network card configuration" and follow the prompts (one can hope!).

Quote Originally Posted by NewGuy
Specifically, the task is:
I have a PC with 512M, CD writer and external USB drive with unlimited room and Knoppix 3.7 image(/dev/sda1/k.iso) on it. No internal hard drives, no network. I want to burn the image on CD-R, using Knoppix v3.4.
Problem with that scenario is, you can't take the Knoppix 3.4 CD out to burn Knoppix 3.7 if you booted off the CD.

What you might try is downloading the floppy boot disks for Knoppix 3.6 (I think they work for 3.7 also) from here, use them to boot up your computer, and then at the boot prompt type

knoppix bootfrom=/dev/sda1/k.iso

to use the 3.7 ISO on your USB drive. If it works (and I don't have a USB drive with which to test it), that'd leave your CD writer free to burn your Knoppix 3.7 image using K3B (a CD burning app on the "Multimedia" menu).

Merry Christmas!

<Edit: I think that only the 2.6 kernel uses "ubxx" to refer to USB devices; 2.4 still uses "sdxx".>