@Capricorny. thanks for your insights, too.

Here's what I've found. for the area of persistence, there needs to be a NEW section written. It does not seem to provide the kinds of service that other documents on the internet provide.

The Cheatcodes for Version 6 dated 11/2009 is what I was also using. If there's anything that is the gospel, I would expect that to be it. But, (sad) it is not. So as excited as I was when I started weeks ago, I'm trying as best i can to get the fire back. My problem is that if I cannot get the Cheatcodes to be behave consistent with the documentation, where is the creditable information I should use. So I turned to the forum. But, as you can see ...

@krista - I was able to get a good tohd=/dev/sda6 to work to ext3. The hurdle was that you cannot specify anything other than a device that resides in /dev. When I used a "link" as in the /mnt directory, it does not work even though I found documentation that indicates it works. I gotten so much time invested in all the 50 or so reboots, that I have run out of time to address the initial project. I DVD based system where the user files and configuration files exist on the HDD while the system boots from CD and runs from RAM. This now looks impossible with the NEW version of Knoppix. Thanks for your staying with me and offering your insights, tests, help, and guidance.