Customizing Knoppix on Windows

[huwnet]

I would like to customize knoppix but I cannot install it to the hard drive. Are there any guides about how to customize linux in Windows before burning it to CD

[unamiccia]

You have to be running Linux to customize the contents of the Knoppix CD. If Windows is running the computer, you're out of luck.

I think it's technically possible to use Knoppix itself to perform the customizing/remastering, either from the hard drive (see http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/HdBasedHowTo) or even from the CD itself. However, either strategy would be highly acrobatic. You would be better off slipping a rich guy through a needle and then shaking him down for a second hard drive where you can install Knoppix and do your remastering by the book..

If your aim is simply to adjust configurations and settings, however, you can go the Persistent Home and "myconfig" routes (see the FAQs at http://www.knoppix.net/docs/) and skip remastering altogether!

[arkaine23]

Remastering while booted from a knoppix CD is easy. You still need a few GB of ext3 space though. Luckily knoppix has tools to resize partitions on the fly much like the program partition magic, so even if you have widows on one huge partition, you could still reasmter knoppix. There'd just be a couple of extra steps.

[dr_zlo]

maybe you can customise on windows. try download vmware (virtual machine) software, create virtual computer in your windows and try customise. go to the www.vmware.com, read documentation and go to the work...who knows, maybe is gonna work :-)

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[Ghandalfar]

Vmware method will work ofcourse... it will just take 'a little' longer..

[huwnet]

Got VMware now so I can try it out!

[bjohnson]

You can find an article on remastering Knoppix using VmWare at http://www.katr.com/cdmastering-overview.php. The article basically goes through the setup and configuration of a VmWare virtual machine and the subsequent linux configuration after booting the virtual machine with a Knoppix ISO. After that, a simple example of remastering is presented.

[bfree]

maybe you can customise on windows. try download vmware (virtual machine) software, create virtual computer in your windows and try customise.
Or you could use qemu instead of vmware though it is probably slower still (but it is Free). Either way remastering in a virtual environment is going to be quite painful unless you have a seriously fast machine and buckets of ram.