I've been using a remastered Kanotix distribution called Paipix for my hard disk OS for the
past six months and been very happy with it.

http://aamorimsrv.fis.fc.ul.pt/tikiw...page=PaiPix_EN

gives details.

Until I read this thread I didn't know about Kanotix developers antipathy towards remastering, which surprises me, but that is one advantage of free software: At the end of the day it's not important what they think in this regard, because they can't dictate and say "you mustn't remaster", they can just advise you. Nine months ago Kanotix was the only distribution to recognise all my hardware, in particular a Gigabit Lan.
See
http://i915ga.gratiswiki.dk/cgi-bin/...l?Mark_Preston

As a more general observation I would say that for any particular PC hardware it may be a good idea to have a variety of Linux distros available for possible installation, because one or more probably won't install happily. This is a big advantage of live distros - you can try the live version and if it won't boot then you just move on to another, or start messing with the cheatcodes