Knoppix USB Boot and a Backtrack3 issue

[murdockpt]

OK, Im not ENTIRELY new to Linux, I had an eeepc for a couple months before my parents oh so rudely took it away, so I guess I can say im FAMILIAR with it.

Anyways, now that thats out of the way, I recently installed Knoppix to my 1gb USB drive, so i can boot to it when the account control on vista gets annoying and whatnot. In the meantime, i have a couple questions...

-How do i get my laptop connected to the internet through knoppix? it works fine in vista, but knoppix is a mess.
-there seems to be a bunch of nothing installed on my knoppix distro. How do i get rid of this nothingness?
-Most importantly, I have a file im trying to unrar through knoppix, but i seem to be missing the program itself. How do i install said program to knoppix so i can unrar the file?
-How do i get settings to save as well? my mouse settings are WAY to sensitive to be comfortable...

thats all i have at the moment for knoppix
i got the distro here by the way

USB Knoppix 5.1.1 install | USB Pen Drive Linux


Now for my second issue. I installed Backtrack 3 to a cd so i can boot from it (the ISO image). the only problem ive encountered so far is that when i try and boot to it, everything works fine and dandy until, i guess it tries to start actuakly making sense and the mouse pops up. From here it flashes in and out about every 5 seconds and thats it.
any reason why this is? id very much rather like to fix this and get it working...

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I have never used Knoppix USB and I can't help you here. I would suggest you to check SLAX too. I am using Slax Usb for years and haven't faced a single problem yet.

Now for my second issue. I installed Backtrack 3 to a cd so i can boot from it (the ISO image). the only problem ive encountered so far is that when i try and boot to it, everything works fine and dandy until, i guess it tries to start actuakly making sense and the mouse pops up. From here it flashes in and out about every 5 seconds and thats it.
any reason why this is? id very much rather like to fix this and get it working...

Its a Graphics Card problem. Backtrack is not configuring your Graphics Card properly. Which Graphics Card do you have?

[murdockpt]

m graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

ill be back in a bit to post the wireless card stats and whatnot

[murdockpt]

ok, i posted my wireless question in the wireless connection forum, so my my most primary question is as to how i can manually install a program to unrar a file in knoppix? seeing as i dont have a wireless connection, i cant use the package manager.