I installed Knoppix 3.2 to the hard drive in the summer, and recently did a full apt-get upgrade; as far as I can recall, I didn't change the sources.list file (though I may have added some local Debian mirrors).

I had in the last few months installed a number of additional packages, and a new kernel (2.4.22).

The upgrade did not go well. Many changes seem to have been made to the system, and many of the settings I had adjusted seem to have been overwritten or replaced. Also, at boot the system is now trying to install a number of modules it didn't try before (ISDN is one in particular I noticed). Custom changes I had made to /etc/inittab, /etc/init.d/rc.d, /etc/init./rcS.d (for kernel-patch-lpp) were lost. It seems the upgrade

After mucking about for a while I did manage to get the system to boot properly, except for two issues:

1. Boot time is now much longer. I am guessing this is because of the attempts to load modules that don't exist in my recompiled kernel

2. KDM does not start automatically, though it tries to. The last message at boot is "Starting KDE", but then it goes straight to a console. Typing "kdm" at the console will then start KDE without problems.

3. Some console programs run as root use German (i.e. modconf)

Before I start mucking about with the module directories and startup scripts, does anyone have any suggestions/thoughts/comments about this? Anyone else have the same problems? Might I better off to clean off the hard drive and do a fresh instal (I can reinstall the few extra programs without too much hassle)?

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