Thanks, Stephen. The knx-hdinstall finally completed this morning from a knoppix 2 startup, and it actually boots into X and does everything like it's supposed to, so I'm one step closer.

The only oddity is that, while the Knoppix CD boot discovers my PCMCIA network card (the onboard NIC has been broken for a long time), the hdinstalled version did not. I think I just have to go back and teach the network interface to use my DHCP server, though - didn't get to tweak it before I left the house.

The next time I try a debian install I'll go for this discover thing and see how it operates. This is a package that I have missed up to now. I've searched a lot, but I guess my search terms weren't the right ones.

Thanks for your help...