I'll wait until you get a new thread started before dwelling too much on the file issues.

Quote Originally Posted by bigspanner
... I am thinking of having a dual boot system, with both XP and Knoppix.....
As far as I'm concerned, all systems with Windows and an optical drive are Windows/Knoppix dual boot. If you're talking about installing Knoppix to hard disk, that's just crazy talk (IMHO). If you want Linux installed, install something intended to be installed. Debian would be one choice (and is the distro of Linux that Knoppix is based on). See the warning about installing Knoppix in the hard disk install section of the wiki for details.