knoppix-installer

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Why? The best option is beginer with hdw detection.

This is just my opinion.
Based on the multitude of problems, I would say the best option is to not install Knoppix unless you know what you are doing. Unless you truly, must have, gotta install Knoppix, don't do it.

A car is not designed for a good night of sleep. You can sleep in a car but unless you are dead tired, it is something that probably should not be done. Knoppix is not designed to be installed to the hard drive. It is designed to be a bootable CD. Sure it CAN be installed to the HD but it unless you are very experienced, it is something that should not be done. Or in other words, a hammer is a good hammer but make a poor knife.

There are email messages, howto guides, & forums where people are telling others that a Knoppix HD install is OK for newbies. I feel that they are not fully informed and are causing more problems that they are fixing. A Knoppix install on a HD is very difficult to administrate, add/remove software & get new drivers. Some may feel that they can deal with the oddities & the quirks, but if it were all easy, then why are there so many people with problems after a HD install. A Knoppix HD install will most likely break something, usually networking. A perfect real example of such is this topic within the past week: "Help please - how do I install a ethernet card driver???. Read that quickly & you will realize that we had to support this user with more technical geeky commands than you would normally find in a HD install of a normal distro.

So I say that knoppix should not be installed to the HD. What about Debian people in regards to the HD install of Knoppix?
2004
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg01452.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg01494.html

2005
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mento.../msg00203.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mento.../msg00208.html

There are plenty of desktop oriented distros to choose. Here are some I've installed in the last 6 months.
Debian 3.0/3.1, Fedora Core 3/4, Suse Prof 9.1/2/3, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Linspire 4.5/5.0 on i386

If you want a boot from CD drive then use a Debian based live CD like Knoppix. If you want to install Knoppix to the HD (which is really Debian) then skip Knoppix & install Debian 3.1 released Mon June 6. If you want a pre-configured user-oriented desktop PC (not server) distro based on Debian then use Ubuntu (GNOME desktop) or Kubuntu (KDE desktop) or see Fedora Core 4 (released June 13). If you want a real noob friendly desktop Debian based distro & are willing to pay a small yearly price for support & software updates use Linspire.

I hope this helps.
James