Quote Originally Posted by Tortoise
Why hasn't whatever magic is in the Knoppix installer migrated to other distros, especially the supposedly noob friendly ones?
Gentoo has a similar detection built into it. It is vert helpfull indeed, Problem with gentoo is that it has no binary packages which means you have to compile EVERYTHING.
Knoppix is the way to go. Plop in the cd, boot, shell and run knx-hdinstall and your golden in about 15 mins. Gentoo on the other hand, you plop in the cd (with a 45 page install manual in hand), and spend the next 3 days compiling a complete system with everything you need. And believe me, with compile times as they are you don't have ANYTHING that you dont need.

Cheers...and thanx to the knoppix team for an outstanding distro.