while were on the subject of debian, i actually just installed the knoppix to my hard drive. i tried alot of different ones (red hat, suse, ubuntu justto name a few) and i found that only 2 would mount my windows drives automatically, suse and knoppix. in ubuntu i had to go in and modify my fstab file. the knoppix just seems to find anythin i plug into it, including my two digital cameras and my camcorder as well as my usb jump drives. i am still a relative noob to linux all together but i think that knoppix is going to be a good learning tool. as well as educating experience for me. just my 2 cents worth.