Greets, my first post..

I'm looking at Linux with beryl as an alternative to a Vista future... Having tested Sabayon and Knoppix on an old PC (900 kHz AMD athlon, Radeon 9200) I find Knoppix is much much faster, Sabayon 3.26 was so slow as to be almost unusable, even without beryl.

I cannot get Knoppix 5.1.1 to install on the HDD with beryl AND my own user account with password.

The three options from knoppix-installer are:

1. Debian - this does not give me beryl
2. Beginner - also no beryl
3. Knoppix cd on hdd, i get beryl, but I cannot find a way to create my own account with password.

In each case i ran knoppix-installer from a livecd session with beryl enabled.

With option 3, i apt-get upgraded all packages, when I rebooted, I got a login screen, of course the knoppix account is password locked, and my own user created account would not start an x terminal, just dumped me back to the login.

I am currently working in option 2, i can see on the /boot/grub/menu.lst that desktop=beryl is included...

Code:
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.19 Default
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 rw ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce loglevel=0 desktop=beryl vga=791
initrd          /boot/initrd.img
savedefault
boot
but beryl is not started on login (I had removed the 'quiet' keyword before 'desktop=beryl")


Any suggestions on the best way to proceed?

Thanks to all, Ben