Thanks all. In the end I bailled out: I was just getting deeper and deeper into the pooh pooh.

I'm now back with 3.2, a running Alsa, internet connections and struggling to find out why Lilo can't find init. (And how to get that sexy lady's voice on startup.)

I've made a seperate home...................



Apropos Knoppix and Debian, I think Knoppix may be the greatest thing ever to have happened to Debian (which is why I'm back here), but the next greatest thing would be a really good front end (and some clean-ups) for apt-get, dselect and family.