Hi eco2geek,

I actually followed literally the instructions which were posted by you in the following thread:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18192

I might try again somewhere next week to see if I'm having the same trouble and then have a more detailed list of things that happend.
On the other hand, if I can get a memory stick of a reasonable size and price I might just drop the NTFS persistent home directory completely and have it on the stick.

By the way, do you know if it is possible to have:
1) On a memory stick the persistent home directory as well as the startup configuration (equivalent of booting with floppyconfig)?
2) On one and the same memory stick 2 possible startup configurations (one for home and one for work)? (maybe I should create a new thread for this)

Greetings,
jma2
PS: I have no experience with USB devices (under Linux) so far.