I'm relatively new to Knoppix. Long-time linux user, though--primarily Mandrake/Mandriva and recently ubuntu.

I've searched the forums and see that an obvious function must be missing! People have requested, for example, a way to remember boot options/cheatcodes. The advice is change the boot configuration (if starting from a floppy/pen drive, etc.) or remaster. It's not necessarily convenient to do the former because it may necessitate using a floppy+a CD instead of a CD alone. And it's like using a howitzer to kill a fly to remaster for that purpose alone.

What seems to be missing is, just as Knoppix automagically scans and uses swap space, it should have a set path of places to look by default for configuration overrides, cheatcodes, and a post-configuration shell script, perhaps named knoppix.sh or perhaps something more esoteric.

If there is reluctance to have the possibility of data on a questionable disk influence knoppix during boot, then there can be additional cheatcodes to suppress the search behavior, just as there is a noswap option to preserve the potential for forensic analysis of swap partitions.