Quote Originally Posted by jbreazeale
What distribution would you recommand that is intended for use on a HD that won't be a lot of trouble making it fit into a 2GB partition?
Asuming that you are talking about a real install and not a PMI that uses the compressed image (an assumption I make based on the other things you say), Debian, the distro that Knoppix is built on, should take no more space than Knoppix for the same applications, even less if you omit installing things that are in Knoppix but that you will never use. Let me ask this, did you try installing Debian Etch and decide that there are issues that you would rather fight with Knoppix than resolve in Debian, or are you making the choice to install Knoppix without looking at Debian?