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well said superman ;)

Thanks for the feedback Werner P. Schulz, I appreciate...

@rajibando, perhaps you did not understand me well then. let me explain better...

1. I boot knoppix from my pendrive on every machine...

Basically I have followed the links and comments you both supplied and came up with the following solution:

1. Decompress minirt.gz
2. Open init with vim.
3. At the start of mountdata(), use...

Hi,

I managed to accomplish what I wanted.

Modified mountdata() to check for a new boot parameter which I called overlay and now when you type:

knoppix overlay=/dev/sda1

Init will mount...

@rajibando... I appreciate your help really but unfortunately as I told you, your solution is not valid in my case... I cannot just create partitions on others' PCs. Also I prefer to have a file...

Thanks for your explanation.

I think I got your point. However this does not solve my issue. I cannot just create partitions on other users' systems. All I need is to work on their PCs with...

how many partitions your clients' HDD generally have?
normally 1 partition

How many partitions can be free of any data?
no single partition is totally free of data since normally there is one...

Just sent a PM to the MOD to delete my post about the old thread... sorry about that

RE: grub... No most of them only have windows installed on their systems... therefore no grub

@rajibando, I revived the old thread since I thought it was still relevant and useful. Sorry about that.

Please allow, to explain better what I am looking for.

1. I have knoppix on my usb to...

@ superman ... thanks

That confirmed what I was thinking... it is quite disappointing though since if I remember correctly, Knoppix had that feature in earlier versions.

In my opinion, it was...

I have already seen that link and http://www.wp-schulz.de/scripte/backup-script.html

However how does knoppix-data.inf work? Where should it be located on the usb and can you use it to make it...

Anyone please? Cannot seem to find anything in the documentation.


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Thanks for this. However this creates an img on the usb. I need to create the overlay file in the hard disk of the laptop/PC I am working on and then configure knoppix to use it.

How can that be...

hi,

I have downloaded knoppix 7.4.2 and installed it on usb flash drive using the read only option. At that time I did not want persistence.

Now I need persistence. On earlier versions, knoppix...