Quote Originally Posted by Matrox462
I'm just curious about how different Knoppix is from Debian. If someone wanted to use Debian, would using a HD based install of Knoppix be about equivalent? (minus the absence of some packages) I ask cause I was thinking about downloading Debian, but I already have knoppix downloaded, and so far I love how it runs. And I mean, I'm on 56k, so I'd be happy to not have to download more ISOs.
Knoppix is a mix of the testing and unstable releases of Debian. This is not a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned; it's been working great on my machine since July--as my main OS. I'm sure looking forward to the next release in a week or so!

Maybe you could take your machine over to a friend's house with broadband and upgrade and install new packages that way.