You may not want it running as part of knoppix-autoconfig, especially if it depends on other services such as networking components and the like.

Best is to create a startup script for it.

cd /etc/init.d
vi tryout

(Use another editor if you don't like vi)

This will be a very simple shell script to start your application.

#!/bin/sh
cd /dir/where/TRY.OUT/is/saved
./TRY.OUT



Save it and exit. Make it executable.

chmod +x tryout


Now link it into your default run control folder (rc5.d for a graphical boot).

cd /etc/rc5.d
ln -s ../init.d/tryout S99tryout


You link will start with S##, which indicates it is a script that starts a program/service, and the numbers indicate the order compared to other services that it will start. S99 would make it the last thing to start.