christi, cool to see you're trying out GNU/Linux.



http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqNetwork



Looks like they have some information there that you can check out, I've never used it myself but it sounds interesting. However, it will be annoying to have to setup the network and what not with every boot... I recommend just installing the system on the hard drive, you can set it up for dual boot if you want to keep windows around. At least with it installed on the hard drive you won't have to deal with reconfiguring everything every time you decide to boot into the other system.



It sounds like it's based on debian, but the live cd setup has a non-standard filesystem layout (apparently) so I doubt any of us will be able to tell you useful paths to files without trying it out ourselves... and I'm simply not bored enough for that



Another option is to click on the link in my signature and follow the instructions there, I can give you a shell on a GNU/Linux box that you can access from your windows via PuTTY, it gets you an email address, home page, and best of all a fully capable shell environment as a user on a Debian GNU/Linux machine. It's useful especially if you just want to learn without ******* with your own machine (yet). The best thing I can recommend is getting access to a GNU/Linux shell, and getting the Orielly bash book, and Orielly learning vi book. Become fluent in those two tools and you will never look back, and it will make the rest of *nixland much easier to learn, discover, and use. just my $.02