Quote Originally Posted by sstraw View Post
Is persistence without a tohd install really a capability nobody else was using before?
I think so. If you look at the script 'init' inside minirt.gz, you will understand knoppix operations a lot better.
( Google around for remaster knoppix thingie, you will find some doc about how to view/modify minirt.gz. Basically 'minirt.gz' is a gzipped cpio archive. ).

Somewhere inside the script 'init', there is a function mountdata(). I would suggest you modify it. Right now, KNOPPIX only looks for knoppix-data.img under /mnt-system/KNOPPIX directory ( the /mnt-system is where KNOPPIX is located, so in your case, it's the DVD), so you can very simply modify it to look for knoppix-data.img at any other locations of your choice. This will likely be the only place you need to modify to accomplish what you want to do.