Re-mastering Proof-of-Principle Effort

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@ Capricorny, relative to 'Marlas method':

Marlas is really brave to dive into minirt.gz and change it.
I don't expect to have Marlas' problem.
I've used SD cards almost exclusively with Knoppix ever since 6.2.1 with no problem.

My portable has four USB ports: three come out as regular USB, one as a Card reader.
I also have an external Sony Card-to-USB adapter.
The portable reads all these just fine.

I do have some problems booting from an external USB hard drive,
but wasn't planning to go that way in this experiment.