Hello,

I am about to attempt to remaster Knoppix 4.0 (or is it 4.0.2?) and I was wondering if I might be able to ask a few questions?

Are there any problems with 4.0 like 3.9 and the UnionFS which made people go use 3.8?

Is the 3.8 HowTo still applicable? I saw one message where someone had to change a single step.

Which installation method is the best. I would like to add the Knoppix remastering partition to GRUB and boot it form there but would that involve a Debian installation which I believe would not let me remaster anything? Do I have to boot up off the CD and use the bootfrom=? Cheat code (that may not be the right one) each time to start the installed partition? Or can I set up GRUB to allow me to boot from the GRUB screen without a bootable CD, but will that make remastering harder such as saving parameters (such as screen and audio) that should be found during boot up so the remaster will still work on another machine.

On the far left of the bar at the bottom of Knoppix there is the normal Debian Start? Button. Right next to it is a Knoppix penguin that also opens up a menu. I have searched the forums and have not seen anything that would tell me how to make such a menu of my own. Is there a website that would tell how this is done? Preferably one that would tell me how to write a script that will automatically populate a menu while using whereis to make sure the programs are installed and accessible from that location.

One last thing, I see there is a section for Ideas. Can I tell you about an idea I had and see if you think it is worth putting in the other forum?

Knoppix works great on my old machines but the newest machine has some video problems so I have to type in Knoppix screen=800x600 depth=16 each time it boots up. The problem is that I sometimes miss the time limit or forget. In such a situation I have a totally blank screen and have to turn the computer off and then back on. I am worried about not correctly unmounting any drives and not shutting the equipment down correctly. I thought that perhaps a hot key combination such a CNTL-ALT-R could initiate a reboot of the computer and thus shut everything down correctly.

There may already be a way to do this. I thought if the mouse was working a right click could bring up the menu with logout. I keep forgetting to look and see if there is a hotkey that would click the logout menu item and another hotkey for Reboot. I just thought that someone could get messed up at one of those steps and the CNTL-ALT-R might be easier to remember.

Thank you for reading this and thanks in advance
Philip