Quote Originally Posted by GCMartin
I am in the planning phase of a Knoppix CD use system.

If I boot "Knoppix toram" it will load so that I am running total in ram without CD assistance.

My QUESTION:
If I create a "persistent" Home directory and I specify it at boot time (via Knoppix toram home=/dev/sd5) will Knoppix load just the CD contents or will it load the HOME directory into memory as well. too?
I would like to load my system's programs-package needs to memory, while I would like to keep user information on the attached disk.

Help if you understand this. Thanks in advance.
Hey-

That sounds like a solid plan to me. The cool thing about Knoppix in this case is that you can try it without losing anything; if you have trouble let us know and we'll try to help.

Krishna

p.s. Another option would be to use the HD for both, as I do, e.g.
Code:
knoppix tohd=/dev/sd5
which will copy the system to the HD, then use it. You'll also be prompted to create a "persistent image" (which is more than /home, allowing modifications like installing another browser) with a password (very secure, using AES). Afterwards you would use
Code:
knoppix fromhd=/dev/sd5
to boot into that saved system.