Quote Originally Posted by Zoltan
I downloaded the Knoppix 4.01 DVD image.

At first impression, everything now seems to work, including that elusive FAT32 partition on the external USB drive.
...and FWIW, I plugged in a pendrive to the running system, and it was recognized.

Now I've got to get it to recognize the USB CDROM as well.
Actually, it does, but both CDRom entries refer to the same CDRom.