As you are using these forums to find help for your knoppix problems and received a consise answer, why do you take issue with the honest, forthright, informed reply " it isn't intended for hard drive install" ?

Knoppix is _not_ debian. Knoppix is a hand picked selection of applications and libraries that does _not_ fit into any of the debian distribution models. It is neither oldstable, stable, testing nor experimental. It does include software from all of them. Hence, there are dependency issues that have been manually satisfied by the engineers at knoppix.

You are welcome to perform your own re-engineering. The tools are all there and the requirements for each piece of software you wish to install are openly documented, but, as this would no longer be knoppix, you are on your own. We will be happy to assist you with any technical details that we have knowledge of.

Your only specific request was for assistance with kdm for which the only information given by you is "loading halts during System Services loading". A more specific error would be appreciated. Have you consulted your kdm.log file to see if the particular problem(s) is/are noted? Do you know where your log files are kept? Are you aware that there are dozens of log files that cover everything from system starting and daemons to specific software?

You also take issue with apt. What software and library versions were added and/or removed? Did you modify the repository list? Are you aware that it is possible to _pin_ versions so that they are selectively kept and/or upgraded? Do you know how to use man pages?

The file structure conforms to the LSB (Linux Standards Base) as do many distributions. I'd like to just drop a short block chevy into the toyota I drive now. They both have four wheels and a drive train. What gives?

I await a more informed request. A list with specific hardware issues for starters. And as far burn rate, use the slowest speed possible.