Poor Man's Install - Can't change read/write mode

[Jansi]

Is their anyway I can change this so that I can write to the same drive I did my tohd command on?

No. Knoppix locks the partition the tohd is installed on.

Here is a case where a partition pointed-at by fromhd= and home= is writeable:
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Hd_Based...ing_GRUB_on_HD