status of Knoppix as build platform

The newest version of Knoppix (V3.3-2003-11-03) uses glibc 2.3.2 & gcc 
3.3.2) so it seemed a good time to re-try building HEAD under it. Got quite 
far; it broke at python, meaning that it got through a lot of core 
packages, including glibc, gcc, perl, and the kernel. From the website, it 
appears that it is not yet expected that building HEAD will succeed up to 
an iso, is this true? If what I got to is par for building HEAD, then this 
might be a convenience for those wanting to try/keep up with HEAD 
development. Doesn't need a chroot. My only preparations were:
   -- checkout HEAD on system with garchive and do a fresh make garchive
   -- make /var/www/{garchive, garpkg} on running Knoppix system
   -- nfs mount garchive on /var/www/garchive
   -- mount enough writeable storage on Knoppix read/write ( > 5.5 gig; I 
actually mounted with options dev, suid, in case I needed to do chroot on 
this storage ... otherwise you can't create device nodes ... previous 
Knoppix (V3.2) succesfully builds STABLE in chroot, but this is important 
trick)
   -- move /tmp aside and symlink /tmp to a directory on the writeable 
storage; make build and gar subdirectories there (otherwise, may run out of 
tmp space duing build)
   -- checkout gar (HEAD) on writeable storage and build as usual
   -- I didn't do this but will try next time: setup environment for ccache 
so it uses area on writeable storage instead of knoppix user's home (which 
is in ram, therefore has little space for cache)

Thanks,
Bill