The kde-core meta package from the unstable distribution would have helped. I followed the instruction on the kde website for installion, and doenloaded the kde libs etc, etc.

It's clear to me that Linux is working fine and that everything is as it should be to at least the bootmisc.sh script which runs as late as 'S55' in rcS.d (confirmation is I added a firewall script to this which loads okay).

But..... I now get dropped to a login prompt and have to use 'startx' to load kde.....

I cannot seems to find where I should be logged in and Xwindows/KDE start automatically.....

This is in effect a standard Debian install now, not Knoppix. I expect I could find and fix the broken parts of kde, but I'm stuck with the missing debian bits at the moment.

I'll try some more googling if not success then backup my personal stuff, the extra scripts in init.d and re-install...... doh!

Stu.....