Greetings greenfly and all,
Thank you for your ideas and support for KNOPPIX.

This can be a great project for stimulating
open-source effort. It makes for nice do-able
projects for Linux learners and creative results
to the benefit of many.

http://grow-knoppix.berlios.de/

grow-knoppix is a xdialog script for customizing
that works with the the KNOPPIX DVD 5.3.1.
It is aimed at cut paste download and a bit
of scripting if you please. The original KNOPPIX
is copied and the new executable and data files
are added to produce a new DVD in 15 minutes.

MODULAR implementation so far is rather simple.
The optional elements are:
1. new or revised index.html, shown or not shown
2. a jpg wallpaper is installed in KDE desktop
3. knoppix-gk.sh is appended on to knoppix.sh
4. executable-files.ast go into ~/.kde/Autostart
the .ast is stripped and starts with KDE desktop
5. configs.tbz configuration file may be made.
6. multiple tarball.tbz extracted at boot place
executable files in /usr/bin or content anywhere
7. .deb files on the DVD install each boot with
dpkg -i /cdrom/*.deb
8. content of any type placed on the DVD root

Data sources of all 8 elements are independent.
A file can be dragged and dropped, linked to local
drives, wget downloaded by simply pasting
Internet address into grow-knoppix.

Reality Check:
This is experimental, mount drives at you own risk.
This is live DVD only. If you don't install, it can't get messed up.
This is not remastering or updating the system
but you can sure impress people.
Hopefully new KNOPPIX releases will work.
I hope we will scavenge enough free DVD space.
Boot times can be lengthy when installing 37 deb
files but probono can help with klik packages.
You can sure go through a pile of DVD's in a hurry.
Who has ideas, who will work, who will share, who will host?

Project types:
Please, no boot up prompts, just turn it on and have it work.
I work with customization for accessibility issues.
I automatically backup all partition on a drive with partimage,
-- hands free KNOPPIX mounts, names, ejects and powers off.
Demonstrate new and keep old versions of software for reference.
Content based projects with DVD for archive and distribution.

Let us hear what you think.

Best Wishes,
paradocs