Quote Originally Posted by satimis
Knoppix LiveCD 4.0.2
1.5 Mb ADSL broadband via modem
..... I have other 2 HDs mounted on mobile rack, running WinXP and FC3 respectively. ....
If I understand you correctly you are talking about one computer booting any of 3 different OS, and not 3 different computers.

Although Knoppix will be slower tp start firefox since reading a cd is slower than a hard disk, browsing should not be slower once the browser is loaded. I have 3 thought to share on this.
  • 1. read my generic answer #4.

    2. If your system is extremely memory starved it might be thrashing itself to death while running Firefox. You gave no cpu or memory information, so we can't help ypu. (Even when you gave info, like telling us you had a DSL modem, you omitted the make and model, It's almost always better to give as much information as you can in these cases.)

    3. If it's not a memory and swapping issue then this sounds to me like a DNS server issue. How have you configured Knoppix without a router? Are you sure the DNS server is right? Try pinging sites by URL and by IP address and see if there is an extreme difference in how long it akes for you to get a response whn using URLs (not how long the ping is, but if it actually takes much longer with a stopwatch to get a response).