confused by password stuff

[krishna.murphy]

I did a full install of 6.2.1 from DVD to an unused 8GB SD drive using the "install to flash drive" utility from a live boot. All seems well, but I keep running afoul of the need for user "knoppix" to have a password. I was able to temporarily fix that by making user "knoppix" part of the "root" group - but nothing (not even ice weasel settings) get saved between boots. Shouldn't that all be saved in /home/knoppix? Has this been changed in Knoppix so that all settings go to that special settings file it gives me the option to create at boot time?

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patti

Great! AFAICT, "that special settings file" you refer to is the "persistent store", which is indeed where all changes you make would persist. However, you shouldn't have to make the changes you refer to in order to run Knoppix - it's designed to run without passwords. You can run anything you like as root, just by prefixing the command with "sudo". My suggestion is to try again, wiping and reinstalling, then boot it up and create a persistent store file, maybe 1-2 GB? That way you'll be able install most any program, etc.

Cheers!
Krishna