Quote Originally Posted by simone.montanari
you all know the possibility to write labels like "system id", "author", "publisher" etc..
everyone is able to change them, and all burning programs support them.

It would be nice to use them to define cheetcodes for booting knoppix.
E.G. you set the author "Sofia Loren" and knoppix starts in italian.

It is much easier then remastering.
of course it can be done only for parameters not concerning the kernel...
Hello Simone and welcome.

That's certainly an interesting thought. Of course, rather than being cryptic or cute about it, one could just let one of the label fields hold the parameters desired and pass them at boot time (in other words, set publisher to acpi=off noscsi desktop=icewin and that would be picked up by the kernel at boot time). I doubt the limitation that you mentioned with the kernel is much of an issue, I don't think Knoppix has included more than one Kernel since the days when it had the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

The question that I have about this is that while most serious burning programs (unfortunately not some free burners) do support these fields, I'm thinking that they may not support them for ISO burning. That is to say, if in Nero or some similar program I try to set up an author or publisher string and then I burn an ISO file, will that information end up on the disc? As far as I know, it will not. If I'm correct about that (and I would be glad to find out that I was wrong), then this approach would not help the average guy who just wanted to burn an ISO with the cheat codes that he always needs enabled, and anyone capable of unpacking the ISO porperly into it's components and rebuilding a bootable disc should already be able to sneak in the extra boot paramenters he wants for his custom version. So I'm not sure that this would work, although it would be great idea if it would and you could convince Klaus to add the start-up code.

If writing of an ISO works like I suspect and prevents this information from being added, might there be another way to accomplish the same end? Such as writing a second session to an unfinalized disc? I doubt this would be a good approach with a CD version (if there is even going to be a CD Knoppix any more), as the overhead of a second session even for a tiny file is way too many megs to justify this. And I have less experience with multi-session DVDs (and suspect that DVD+R and DVD-R may be different). But there is enough room on the DVD that, if a second session is viable and would still leave the disc in a bootable form, it could allow for the passing of boot parameters, and perhaps more (think a few extra programs and a custom install script).