Quote Originally Posted by madtripper
when I run netcardconfig on the hdd boot, I receive the following:
Sending DHCP boradcast from device eth0failed to connect to localhost:bootpc: Network is unreachable
Failed.
Fixed same problem on different box.

added to /etc/modules.conf:
alias eth0 tulip

You may already have this in modules.conf or may need a different module.

added to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

The last two lines probably already exist, but missing the first line is enough to keep the loopback from getting an IP which just pisses things off. This is fixed in later versions of the knoppix hd install script.