Knoppix 6.7.0: A View from the Forest

[Forester]

Nice to have you back, Professor Forester.

Don't count on it.

Are you acquainted with GvR?

No. I've lived in Flanders (and can recommend it) but I never met anyone called Gilles van Ruymbeke.

... a new re-mastering thread I've started.

What yet another thread ? I haven't read all the others yet.

The long thread (that started on Knoppix 6.7.0 and wandered off topic) I read at times reminded me of the four blind men describing an elephant. I'd like to suggest that if you're going succeed in your efforts you will need to come up with a description that not only KK recognises as an elephant but that the great majority of Knoppix users, young and old, would recognise too.

And you should come up with the description before you try to make the elephant.

Too often (and I count myself among the guilty) folks go off and make something in the belief that when it is done it will be self-explanatory. Saves all that thinking, designing, explaining, and convincing that ought to go before the doing.

I think you need to define what you are doing before you start. A quick glance at your new thread and I see you've tried. Well done. But a second glance and I see it is all about 'how', not about, 'what' or even 'why'.

Am I making any sense ?

You start with:

Re-mastering will require many gigabytes to accomplish.

Oh.

Please don't give me any credit at all in your efforts. My effort was carefully construction NOT to require any external disk space. That was the only original contribution I made. The rest was plagiarised from elsewhere.

It was just another view of the elephant. Obviously not a popular one.

Also, hope you'll help me get my homework corrected ...

Could you explain the special properties you attribute to ntfs-3g ? At the moment I only see a stick with two wrong ends. I'm sure there is a ramble of thread somewhere I could read if I wanted to get really confused but that wouldn't really help you.

Ciao.