Problem with home=option since 3.8

[Pacala]

Just knowing it was no longer possible would be better than this uncertainty.

It is no longer possible ... sort of. What's happened is that with 3.8 the persistent home directory feature had become the persistent Knoppix disk image (PDI) which uses unionfs and encompasses more that just the home folder. That's the reason for the name change and why older versions no longer "work."

The solution is to create a PDI (you can include encryption, but it's a royal pain), mount your old home folder someplace else (e.g. /tmp) and then copy the files from /tmp/knoppix (for example) into /home/knoppix.

Good luck and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

I have a similar problem. I have a USB hard drive on which I used to store my home directory with Knoppix 3.3. With 3.3 you can either mount a partition directly as a home directory, or have an image file of the directory. At boot time I would type in "home=/dev/sda1".

With Knoppix 4.0.2 I am no longer able to do this. I have tried creating a "knoppix.img" file and typing
home=scan
home=/dev/sda1
home=/dev/sda1/knoppix.img
home=/mnt/sda1
home=/mnt/sda1/knoppix.img
but none of them work. What am I doing wrong? How can I trouble-shoot?

Regards,
Paul