Quote Originally Posted by |enouf|
welcome
To others reading.....The advice (suggestion) you refer to; .....
is not the a Real HDD install (it's not what Harry is warning against, AFAIK) - it's simply a way of booting the LiveCD Image

Thoughts Harry ?
Booting the ISO from hard disk rask rather than after it is burnt to optical disc is indeed much safer. This has also been called the "Poor man's install", a term from back in the days when some hard disks were not large enough to hold the uncompressed Knoppix files and had to use the ISO on hard disk approach if they were going to go on hard disk at all. If all that is wanted is to boot Knoppix faster then this approach can give an improvement over booting from Optical media. But it also retains the limitations of the optical system; you stll have the Knoppix ISO in a read only system that can't be changed and installing extra software is not simple (although efforts to try should not break the original ISO and systems like Klik should work). But if one is going to go this far I feel that they should at least give a try to a real install of a real Debian system first. If you make the choice to go with a Poor Man's Install after trying Debian, that's a decision I can understand and respect (I could even understand that in some very strange circumstances one might choose to go for a full Knoppix hard disk install (sometimes called a fool Knoppix hard disk install). But I can't see any logic in tryng these approaches without at least looking at current installs of real Debian first.