Hello All,

I just picked up the latest Knoppix CD (4/9/03, I believe) and have been running it for a couple of days now. I've got everything but printing working, and that's only because there doesn't appear to be a driver for my (very new) Canon MultiPass C755 printer yet. Considering that I couldn't get most of my on-board peripherals to work under Win98, but I can with Knoppix, I'm very much ready to make the switch.

However, I need to preserve Win98 for a few reasons: OpenOffice isn't quite there yet, and Wine off of the CD basically freezes whenever I try to run a Win app that's more complex than Notepad; games; and for my wife's occasional use. Thus, I'd really like to dual-boot.

I've been roaming around through this board, looking at info on how to properly configure Grub to do this, and have seen much conflicting information (particularly as to whether the hdd-install program will let me set up/configure Grub from within it). Since I know things are changing very quickly with this distro, it'd be good to get current info on what my best bets there are. In return, I'll be happy to write up a detailed dual-boot HOWTO (I've done a fair amount of technical writing in the past) to help others like myself and to save you all some time.

Meanwhile, I've also seen a lot on how Knoppix "becomes Debian" once I've done a HDD install. I wanted to know -- is it actually Debian enough that I could, say, use any of the standard Debian features (.debs, etc.), or perhaps even follow the Debian upgrade path? Or is it just different enough that I'd be forced to stay with Knoppix forever (assuming that it sticks around)? I'm just concerned because I've seen enough smaller Linux distros die, and I don't want to be stuck with one that disappears.

Thanks very much in advance for your help on this.

Alex Kirk