In all the howto's i've read they all make you chroot in a root shell and then do all the configuring commands etc. in that terminal. well i had an idea but being a newbie i'm not sure if it'll work.

1) follow all the instructions in the howto (creating directories, copying knoppix to them, extracting stuff from img etc.)

2) reboot pc, leave knoppix in drive

3) at boot prompt type "knoppix 2" to boot into a text-only mode

4) chroot, as you would in a root shell

5) run startx, then shouldn't kde or whatever be chrooted too?

that way i could run the configuration center and change all i want with the simple graphical tools made for the system?

i'm not sure if it would work properly (or if the above makes sense to anyone! )