Quoting primesuspect

Necro: Thanks for pointing me to that - that is a great tool

Poor Leo.. Him and I were about to go stumbling around like fools with this Knoppix STD disk... Him and I, linux n00bs

Prime,

do this:

Boot from CD.

Choose English, default language is German-- I once got it in French default by mistake also, so be warned default language probably will not be UK English even. The SuSE 9.0 Live CD is mucho better, it is available on ftp://ftp.sunet.se or ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu for broadband only and only for FTP and not httpable ftp on sunet. Sunet is faster by about 1% better throughput than Penn State (psu.edu). Penn State fed ISOs at about 386 KB\sec average yesterday and part of today.... BOTH mirrors are public access, AFAIK.

Let it load, choose KDE if it asks, but you should come up in a GUI-- KDE 3.1.4 or KDE 3.2. It is remarkably Windows-ish. For an00b, print the PDF or txt files on the ISO from Windows first. AFAIK, you CAN boot it to Gnome, but Gnome will be more strange than KDe to a pwerson used to windows. The good thing about it, is that ~TK will be able to help with the CLI, it has some functions much like BSD with a lot of the BSD flagging enabled. Others will be wierd, but AFAIK it DOES know to do MAN and INFO output if you want to explore the commands available. nice explore tool, a B***H (aka PITA majorwise) to install. I cursed at the installer subroutine when it started talking to me in German text....

DO NOT install, installing Knoppix is NOT for n00bs-- please do not even try on an XP box, it will want the WHOLE HD for starters and you will be using command line interfaces to install the thing to part of a HD on a Windows that is pre-2000 for very best results. Just let it run in RAM. The ebst install directions I found were in German and I wiped a drive for it, never got it running, went to other distros. But to learn your way around the GUI, it is neato.

Unless you have used cfdisk before, do not try to install this to HD.

John D.