>>but little things, like when you go to log out it acts just like the CD and shuts down the machine.

! How do you do this. Mine doesn't. I have installed knoppix on 3 boxes, versions 3.1,3.2&.3.3, tried knx-hdinstall on the older versions & both debian style & knoppix style with 3.3. It will power down my laptop but never powers down my desktop boxes. This is one of my pet peeves, I have been unsuccessful in finding the edits or settings to get the system to power down.

>>I'm guessing here but I think you would go to KDE control centre, 'boot options' or 'startup options' & uncheck 'automatically log on one user'.

>>The best explanation for why there is a "Knoppix-style" and "Debian-style" installer is in this post http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5017

What is implied but not made clear in this post is that 'Knoppix style' will rebuild to default fstab & default hardware setup each boot. This is why I use 'Debian style' instead, Knoppix default sets my monitor at 60 cps flicker & I want my shared drives mounted differently. Also, once you are installed on HD, there is no need for all those alternative language supports so the first thing I do is apt-get update & install localepurge. I have found that sometimes when you log out/login again as new user the system does funny things like suddenly speaking German. I also remove the en-de version of Openoffice & install the full version. The en-de version that comes with Knoppix has no help files. Apt-get doesn't do a good job of this, download the tar file & use the built in installer instead. I have also had video bugs whcich I think I have found the solution to. See my other post for this one.