I have successfully remastered Knoppix before (e.g., the OpenVistA VivA FOIA Gold live CDs at http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista), but I have never before today tried to put stuff in /etc/skel so that it is copied to /home/knoppix on boot up. However, it looks as if the contents of /etc/skel are not getting copied to /home/knoppix.

Here is /etc/skel:

knoppix@ttyp2[knoppix]$ ls -l /etc/skel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 2 07:25 /etc/skel -> /KNOPPIX/etc/skel
knoppix@ttyp2[knoppix]$ ls -l /etc/skel/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 2 2005 Animation
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Nov 10 18:47 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Apr 19 2004 GNUstep
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 19 2004 tmp

Notice that there is a directory Animation there, as well as a directory GNUstep. Notice that neither is present in /home/knoppix:

knoppix@ttyp2[knoppix]$ ls -l /home/knoppix
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 knoppix knoppix 160 Apr 2 12:26 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 40 Apr 19 2004 tmp

What am I doing wrong? Thanx muchly.

-- Bhaskar