Ok, after trying a Knoppix CD in a few systems I easily became impressed. I wanted Knoppix to be the distribution I used at home as well, so I gave the hard drive installation a shot. All appeared to go well, with a few hiccups. (Please note that I am not trying to be negative, I am simply looking for solutions and doing my part to offer feedback).

First off the bat, I didn't see the cool colours of the bootup process telling me that I have a logitech cordless mouse, and all of the other autoconfiguration that the Knoppix CD did. Instead, I got a very plain white text on blackbackground boot process with no progress bars or anything.

Second, everything was not in english...but I was warned beforehand so it didn't bother me too much.

Third, K3B (my favorite CD burning app) would not burn unless I ran it as root. I have yet to figure out the solution to this problem as running K3B setup and Configure K3B do not solve it.

Fourth, after installing Synaptic through apt-get, I could not load up my sources list. Synaptic would complain about not being able to read the file sources.list. Manually editing this file worked however.

Fifth, performing an "apt-get update" and then "apt-get upgrade world" would tell me that about 120 packages would be removed (mostly KDE packages with K3B being one of them). Knoppix should maintain a package mirror for the packages that it has installed by default so that these packages aren't removed.

Sixth, the bootup and shutdown voices are gone. When I replace the voices in the KDE setup (this involved setting arts to start automatically), they aren't heard before the KDE boot box starts (like the Knoppix CD), they are heard after KDE configures the devices and such. And, the shutdown voice gets cut off as KDE exits whereas the CD allows the voice to complete.

Seventh, this is more of a request....I would LOVE Knoppix to be an easy graphical frontend to a MINIMAL (that's the key word here) install of Debian. There are ALOT of packages and programs installed by default that I have no use for and could do without. Yes I know I can remove them, but I'm talking about a request for convenience. Maybe just a simple installation of KDE/GNOME along with Synaptic configured with all of the needed package mirrors (and of course any programs that would help in setting up your system such as ethernet/adsl/printer/whatever).

If I run across any other problems I'll be sure to post them. Thanks for listening :P