Installing Knoppix v3.9 to my harddrive....

When I install Knoppix v3.9 onto my harddrive this appears in the terminal

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knoppix@0[knoppix]$ sudo knoppix-installer
/usr/bin/mkdesktophdicons: line 42: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mkdesktophdicons: line 100: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied
Can't open /mnt/hdinstall/home/adm/.mozilla/default/*/prefs.js: No such file or directory.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1194: No soundcards found...
In file "/usr/lib/menu/knoppix-gen-kwifi", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 1:
[...]iFiManager" command="sudo kwifimanager -caption "%c" %i %m  " icon=kwifimanager kderemove="y"
[...]                                                ^
Expected: "="
Skipping file because of errors...
knoppix@0[knoppix]$

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is this a bad thing?

also when I boot up into knoppix from the hard drive... instead of the colorful Knoppix text theres this 'Kanotix (HD-Installation)'

when I try to login as root theres a pop up that says "Root Logins are not allowed".
but it lets me use the 'su' command in the terminal

Thanks for any help.... :)

yup.
your install didn't set the correct permissions:

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/usr/bin/mkdesktophdicons: line 42: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied
/usr/bin/mkdesktophdicons: line 100: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied

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then, it looks like the fstab isn't set right:

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Can't open /mnt/hdinstall/home/adm/.mozilla/default/*/prefs.js: No such file or directory.

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need to run sndconfig tool after fixing first 2 issues:

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/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1194: No soundcards found...

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the rest looks like the .bashrc file is also corrupted.
did you format the partition before installing? ;)
it's almost like you installed onto an ntfs partition.

maybe you could consider using debian, since by installing Knoppix onto the drive that is basically exactly what you are doing.

yeah... I basically formatted my harddrive into an ext3 partition before I installed it... I have a Linux-Swap on there too.... its running fine... I got some help over at 'knoppix.net/forum' but my cd-rom and dvd drives don't work.... whenever I put in a disk it doesn't detect and read it....

ahh, automount / autorun stuffs.
not always reliable for automount.
and autorun don't exist to speak of.

It seems to be generally assumed that if you are using linux you will not want your system to start anything without your explicit instructions to do so.