While playing with 3.7Gb compressed KNOPPIX image I run into problems with ash provided in minirt and cloop. I've updated the new-minirt26.gz to work around those problems.

And just for the record, here's the details of the problems:
1. ash built-in "test -f" command returns False on very big files. Luckily "test -r" still returns True and that's what I switch all tests for KNOPPIX to in linuxrc script.
2. cloop crashes and corrupts kernel when extra big file is specified as file= parameter during cloop load. Luckily specifying this file via ioclt call made by losetup does not have the same problem. I've change setup of the cloop image to have loading of the module and setting the file for /dev/cloop to work on as a separate steps.

Cheers,
Igor

P.S. Oh where, oh where the KNOPPIX developers list went....