Quote Originally Posted by markleong
What is interest to note is that I do not face any problems when working with the Knoppix CD - only when using the HD.
Well, yea, that's frequently seen by reading through the posts made in this forum over the last 3 years, and it's the main reason why many of us suggest that users should install Debian to hard disk. Debian is intended for hard disk install, Knoppix is not and is well known to have problems like this after a hard disk install.

Have you even tried to install Debian? Is there some reason why you would want to fight with these Knoppix issues rather than just installing a system intended for hard disk? I'm really trying to understand why people insist on "installing" Knoppix rather than Debian (or any other good Linux distro that is intended for hard disk install).