ok i had my boss help me out. but i have decided that knoppix is no the best choice to use. i should have used like red hat 9 or some thing that will allow me to log in with the GUI. im the onlyone who uses this computer and im installing it on my box so i can learn it. so i need to have all the permissions set for my user name so i can just log in and do what i need to do.

also im confused about mounting. here is what happened to me. I have 3 partitions, HDA1, HDA2, HDA3. HDA1 is for the install and 2 is for LFS and 3 is soloris swap. well i create a folder named LFS in the /home folder. i mounted hda2 to the /home/LFS folder and then i create a sub folder named sources in the LFS folder, so i have /home/lfs/sources. well when i umount hda2 my sources folder dissapeers but yet my lfs folder is still there. my reasoning for this is that the LFS folder was created on the hda1 and then the sources folder was created on hda2, so when i umount hda2 the ources folder dissapeers cuz hda2 is not mounted anymore. so basicaly im mounting one partition to another, for instance hda2 is mounted on mount point lfs which is on hda1. thanx soo far for all the help and for the help in advance