Creating Knoppix-data.img

**matollik** · 01-06-2011, 03:14 PM

I have Knoppix 6.4.3 installed from CD on a 4GB memory stick. When booting it is inquired whether I want to create a persistent data image. I have given a number like 1500MB or 1500 but no image is created. In what form exactly should the amount be given and what mistakes can one make? Any advice is much appreciated. Matti Ollikainen

**Werner P. Schulz** · 01-06-2011, 06:15 PM

... type in only a number minor/equal free space on stick followed by <Enter>. You must be quick, Knoppix isn't waiting very long

If you get the question for encryption all went well; otherwise reboot and try once more.

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**matollik** · 01-07-2011, 07:36 AM

Thanks your advice resulted a solution so it seems. Encryption inquiry followed and then an image file was formatted. Now I hope all customizations i'll choose to consider will stick unlike they have so far! Matti Ollikainen

**yannos** · 01-22-2011, 07:41 AM

[QUOTE=Werner P. Schulz;122448]... You must be quick, Knoppix isn't waiting very long

< Just wondering ... is there a manner to pause/step the boot? is like a 'expert' install where each stage is given to change option? Yannos

**krishna.murphy** · 01-24-2011, 04:24 PM

There is indeed an "expert" mode." Once the train is stopped (before ~3 sec. and auto-boot continues) use the command:

Code:

knoppix expert

Cheers!
Krishna

**utu** · 01-24-2011, 05:19 PM

I just keep typing, but there's no rush.

**utu** · 01-23-2011, 05:32 PM

As soon as a single character is entered, the train stops.

**otropogo** · 01-28-2011, 05:36 AM

Is there any way at all to create a persistent image file if unable to boot from USB flash or hard drive? I managed to install 6.4.3 CD FS_Knoppix to a 2GB SD card on an external USB card reader on my Intel D865GLC desktop. But I can't find a way to make the desktop boot from that location. And I don't want to install to hard drive. In my recollection, most previous Knoppix versions allowed the creation of a persistent image file without installing to hard drive or USB flash, why can't it be done with 6.4.3?

**Werner P. Schulz** · 01-28-2011, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by otropogo

Is there any way at all to create a persistent image file if unable to boot from USB flash or hard drive?

... perhaps the answer of Klaus Knopper may help you
http://lists.debian.org/debian-knopp.../msg00027.html

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**otropogo** · 01-29-2011, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Werner P. Schulz

... perhaps the answer of Klaus Knopper may help you
http://lists.debian.org/debian-knopp.../msg00027.html

Greetings Werner * http://www.wp-schulz.de/knoppix/summary.html
"Build personal Recovery-CD with Knoppix (Knoppix remaster)"

Thanks Werner. Your citation looks promising, and I'd like to try it. But it appears, from the context, to be designed to write the persisitent image file to the same location as the flash installation. Where would this command write the image file when the system has been booted from the LiveCD, and how would it find it at boot-up if it wasn't on the partition with FS_Knoppix?

I don't know enough to answer these questions, much less to edit the command so that it would work for my situation. How did Knoppix find the persistent image file in older versions that still booted only from the LiveCD or DVD?