[grwcfl537]

I'm surprised it left you in a shell. Knoppix is very KDE centric. If you want to get to KDE (desktop environment) kdm would be the command. You may have to give it a full path --
find / -name 'kdm' -print

Mel

[ohCompGk]

Try "startx" . This should fire off x server on most linux machines. If kde and xwindows are configured properly it should work. If it doesn't then you probably have some configuration errors. If it does work then you need to configure KDE to start at bootup.

[1L]

I had trouble with Linux installs. I admit some of it was hardware based. However, I recently installed FreeBSD on a box that Suse, Slackware, and Redhat wouldn't work on. Now that I got that up, I'm not sure I'm going to mess with Linux.

Before anyone flames, I'm sure some of the problem was either me or the hardware and I'm NOT trashing Linux. However, FreeBSD apparantly has less of a hardware appetite than Linux does. And I'm afraid that some of the "will work on old hardware" claims of Linux distros are misleading. Sure, Linux will install on a Pentium Pro, WITH 128 meg, a decent graphics card, and a 6+ gig HD. When the PP was out, 32-64 was normal for RAM, and 2 gig was a plenty big HD. My FreeBSD box was a Pentium II/233 with 64m and a 4 gig drive. I'm planning on using it as a router/firewall. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated!

[A CA Guy]

I bought a computer fully loaded with Linux which I F-disked to put a fine copy of windows 2000.

[KoRn]

I would stick with the shell. The GUI tends to get in the way ;-).