Day 1
I discovered "persistant home"
and knoppix SEEMED to remember to make hda1 rw,
and Mozilla SEEMED to remember proxy settings.
BUT lisa not seen by konqueror
[ where is the "services" button, like on Redhat?]
lisa definitely shows up as a process, after I type lisa at the command prompt.

SAMBA is nowhere on the disk, nor is FISH
so neither can be used on a CD boot knoppix

LinNeighbourhood finds nothing

Day3: hda1 is no longer remembered - konqueror cant see my hard drive any more.
Mozilla goes stupid: keeps on "converting a profile" and operating off line...
Lin Neighbourhood sees absolutely nothing.

I have dropped out back to wind98 to write this,
maybe I will go and futz with RedHat, just to calm my nerves.
Knoppix, call me next year when its stable.........