Well, I decided to give a Knoppix live-CD a try after having a terrible time trying to get Gentoo to work (and never succeeding). So I put the CD in, and found it actually understands my soundcard propperly--something, Windows 95, FreeBSD, and RHL7 never did figure out quite right. So, now I want to have it running. So I do the copy to harddrive script, reboot, and find that I have having more than a few errors with the knoppix hd installation. The major one being, I cannot login. The problem is, I told it to use kdm to handle logins. The only problem is, while I can login, I get halfway through KDE starting up, and I am forced to login again. Pretty much putting me through an infinite login loop. Does anybody know what I would do to fix this? DakeDesu, protecter of newbie posters. Destroyer of elitist b*ggers™; And most certainly NOT AN ALIEN. This is a special test for quote cleaning--signatures should be delete from all quotes. This is a test.

Don''t use Knoppix.

If you want all the Knoppix neatness, install Debian (since Knoppix is basically a special Debian distro). You''ll be much happier with Debian. Much happier.


Although I''m fond of Gentoo, but that''s unimportant.

Yes, just go with Debian. Check out the new installer. Etc.

I also like Gentoo, but getting it setup is a pain in the ass (what with all the compiling and all), and you only really ever want to have to do it one time.

The Artist Formerly Known as CmndrM

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If you still want to use knoppix: don''t do a knx-hdinstall with 3.3 - in my experience it is quite broken... try 3.1 instead.