RE: Debian-hardware newbie question

["Brendan Smith" <smithb1@gte.net>]

> is it possible to have knoppix-like H/W detection under 

>From one newbie to another: you can, if you want, install knoppix to the
hard drive using instructions such as these:

http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html

...or, you can boot with knoppix and write down the modules it's using
for sound/video/scsi/whatever so that when you install Debian you'll
have an idea of what to use. Don't know if that's what you want or not,
but it's what I've done as I've scratched my way along.