Originally Posted by
Capricorny
I don't see why you should have to boot from CD/DVD. Even if you have a persistent image on a USB stick, you can run from the stick without mounting it. Just start with knoppix(64) noimage. You can mount a volume where you have work files, config files etc, read them in and save - just be careful with modifications of browser function. One way is to keep a "pristine" copy of /home/knoppix, and return to that whenever you have a suspicion of something.
The most flexible way of doing this, is updating/installing all software to a persistent image, do all modifications to setup (e.g. auto-mounting data volume(s) ) and then remaster. Running with the remastered image should then give you what(ever) you want.
You can also have several persistent images, and keep them more or less pristine. The simplest is to make a separate Knoppix directory for each of them, though. Then starting with the cheatcode knoppix_dir=....