-> I dunno when,  in my case.  Got a 10G here I haven't installed yet.  At first I
-> was thinking in terms of more space,  but now I think it'll be handy for
-> upgrading,  too.

That would be ideal for a non-aggressive Knoppix install 
and you could even partition for an image partition for backup
in case during an upgrade something broke.

Hear about Mandriva Linux?
www.mandriva.com

Tain't free and comes in three flavors of difficulty but supposed
to support bleeding edge hardware and detect most all required drivers.

Reviews on this release are impressive.
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