Can you copy the knoppix to hd under windows and then boot the cdrom of knoppix but use the hard disk knoppix directory instead but still would not touch the hard disk ... it would be faster at least ... my portable does not have a floppy but have a cdrom ...

Other questions :

I tried to use myconfig and persistant home. There are three problems along this path using the menu/knoppix/configuration route

a) there is an error message saying something about missing command in rsync

b) there is an issue that while the image partition can be mounted, somehow it cannot be rw (but you can use sudo to do create dir and vi etc.)

c) there is a need of more than 80 mb to run kde and I guess the persistant home image has to be more than 80 mb ... is that true?

Thanks for any advice first.