I love knoppix. I use it "live" (uninstalled) in a variety of situations. I'm looking for an easy workaround that allows apt-get to use the ramdisks for its operations.

The earliest I've seen this mentioned is July 2003. Having looked at the newest cheatcodes, here's my proposal:

Add to the "toram" option, allowing /usr/local and /var to be individually specified. This would allow a machine of modest means to be reconfigurable/extendable without HD installation.