Some 'official' cheatcode clarifications

[Forester]

Someone suggested fromhd as an alternative.

That was me and I was mistaken.

I use fromhd=. I've a set up that boots a hard drive with a syslinux.cfg that uses fromhd= to boot a USB stick. Sounds stupid but I want my persistent image to be portable and home=is not implemented for Knoppix 6.

I also booted the USB stick and used fromhd=/dev/sr0 to boot Knoppix on DVD. Hence my confusion. I think of a CD/DVD as an iso file, which of course, it isn't: it's a burnt iso file.

I suspect that once upon a time someone found they were burning an excessive number of CDs while testing an upcoming Knoppix release so they added the bootfrom= cheatcode to save time and money. These days, I suspect, most of the testing is done using fromhd= to boot the KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file. Since bootfrom= was a cheat code for developers they saw no reason to support any more.

The file knoppix-cheatcodes.txt still talks about "knoppix.sh", which I know does exist in Knoppix 6. The problem here is not that a single cheat-code is obsolete. The whole text has to be read with extreme caution. The same goes for the (English) wiki. Who updates that ? Is it up folks like us ? (The blind leading the blind comes to mind).

I'm thinking I might be better off joining the German language forum. Ich kan Deutsch nur ein bisschen. So I wouldn't be posting but what I read might be most helpful.

[Forester]

The file knoppix-cheatcodes.txt still talks about "knoppix.sh", which I know does exist in Knoppix 6.

No, wrong again.

I read

Knoppix 6.1 ignores the knoppix.sh file. use the overlay-(ext2)filesystem /mnt/system/KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img instead.

on the Wiki page http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto.

I don't know what that sentence is trying to say but for Knoppix 6.4.3 at least, a file at

/mnt-system/KNOPPIX/knoppix.sh

works.

Great if you have a USB install as no remaster is needed. Bad if you've a CD/DVD (comes back to the lack of home= again) as you'd need to remaster after every change.