Quote Originally Posted by soulman
If you have a suggestion for another distribution to try to install, I would be more than willing to try.
My suggestion was, and still is, Debian, the distro that Knoppix is based on. If Knoppix works on your system then you certainly should be able to get Debian to work also. Knoppix does have nicer hardware detection (it's still far from perfect), but Debian has improved a lot in recent years and installs with minimal effort. You avoid all of the problems of Knoppix being a mix of several different versions and not updating properly, things that used to work from the CD but break on a hard disk "install", and you can install easily any of the packages that are included with Knoppix and thousands more.

If people could say that they had tried to install a recent version of Debian but that they still wanted to install Knoppix instead and could state a good reason for that I could certainly respect that (or would try to resolve whatever issue thay were reporting). I do not respect beating your head against the wall with known Knoppix install problems when you have not even looked at a Debian install.