[plug] Best distro for laptops?

[Sideshow Sol]

shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au wrote:

>Debian. (Ah I probly sound like a stuck record in this-un tho!)
>
>I recently upgraded some laptops from the 'legacy' XP installed on 
>them (I love refering to XP as a legacy OS!), using the Knoppix 
>hdx-install method, and as usual, it just sorta... worked!
>
Please excuse my ignorance, but as I am in the process of laptop 
hunting, and as I have a Knoppix CD and intend to install Debian; what 
exactly is this "hdx-install method" exactly? Is there some way of using 
the Knoppix installer to install pure Debian? (a WWW reference is a good 
as an answer here.)

Ta very much?

sol