"Capitulation: 2. A surrender or giving up; yielding "


Hello, I have reached the point of capitulation. The bugs have won.

I followed Joel's suggestion in http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18508
but it still doesn't work right.

1. As Joel found, the USB flash disk must be reformatted to EXT3.
2. The persistent home directory must be the entire USB flash disk, or else it is not found on bootup.
3. The correct cheatcode, no matter what the official cheatcode list says, is
home=/mnt/uba1/knoppix.img
4. I did all this and got the wierd confirmation screen when booting.
I ignored the warnings that using the home directory that you
specified is some kind of security hazard.

However, I still can't get the customization that I used to have. To get
the customization back, I rebooted into Fedora Linux and copied over
all the nice settings that I had before:

su
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount -o loop /mnt/sda1/knoppix.img /mnt/test
cd /tmp/my_old_knoppix_home
find . -print | cpio -pmadv /mnt/test
umount /mnt/test
umount /dev/sda1

But now that Knoppix has all the correct customization files,
it won't give me a desktop. Instead of loading my custom desktop,
it displays a message about not having write access to /home/knoppix.
Then it starts TWM or whatever the limited one-window thing is called.

So now, after more than 20 hours and more than 100 reboots,
I still can't get the persistent home that I had in version 3.7.