Thanks, please don't misunderstand, I was not at all suggesting that you should write me a step-by-step on the DVD burning thing within my time constraints, and I hope you didn't take my comment that way. What I meant was that I'll wait on DVD burning for some future time in which I'm not under pressure, and after someone else either writes a newbie guide or simplifies the UI.

I just thought there might be something obvious I was missing on the HD to HD copy issue, which appears to my inexperienced mind to be a failure to mount. To me, I can't see any reason for Knoppix to give that error. I thought about the possibility that the flaky IDE controller (if that's the problem) might be causing it, but ruled that out by virtue of the fact that hda2 is apparently mounting just fine.

Thanks,
JD