ok ok ok this is a stupid Q.... but booting knoppix normal is text only mode right? and when i booted from the cd i had to do a knoppix screen=800x600 to get it to even run right... so is that what all them codes mean?

i tried all them codes and i got errors.... one saying

sudo: unable to lookup dereks linux via gethostbyname ()

another

mv: cannot sta '/mnt/hda2/etc/X11/XF86Config-4' : no such file or directory

and this come up....

you have new mail in /var/mail/root