I downloaded and burned knoppix onto a cd-r last week. I have been in the windows world as sys admin for years now and always intended to give linux a try. I hesitated becasue my home system is a 700mhz celerone, 64Meg,4mb vram,6gb hd, laptop. And I have it about 80% full with windows programs that I could not get remove because of work.

Anyhow knoppix seems perfect for at least testing out linux.

I noted that somewhere in an faq I read it said that if the machine that you boot the cd from has less the 128mb of ram the knoppix will boot up but will stay in the text mode. Ok then no problem.

Imagine my surprise when KDE desktop came up on my laptop.

1)Is this normal?

2)Will it take 30-45 mintutes to boot every time I use the cd, as it did this time?

I could not use my usb mouse on the laptop, I had to use the touchpad that is housed in the laptop case(the mouse is connect to a 4 port usb hub, along with my zip drive,printer, and webcam.)

3) Can someone tell me how I get the usb items recongized?

Thanks in advance.