I help a friend out with selling his stuff on EBAY. He just dropped a load of $ on a Dell XPS 8400(or something like that) and it's got dual 250 mb drives in a RAID array. It's got XP home on it and it's just godawful, After about 20 minutes I want to beat it with a stick. My 3 yr old computer boots faster in Win2k. So I figure, I'll run Knoppix on it. I DL'd 3.8; but the thing locks right up after saying it's going to boot. And I mean it REALLY locks up. You have to unplug the box, cos the power switch won't even work. Reminds me of older crapples when you got "The Bomb". Now if you want this machine to boot from CD, you have to go into the BIOS and specify it; it defaults to the HD even if a bootable CD is in the drive if you don't. Also I noticed you get two Tuxes on the boot screen. Should I use one of my older versions?