Own Rescue-CD with Knoppix - without "chroot"

[Werner P. Schulz]

In the example I described, the persistent memory is only on partition #2.

I don't know, if it is possible to boot more then one KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX on different partitions with syslinux. Syslinux offers an multiboot option with "mboot.32", but I never tried it.

[utu]

Hello, again, Werner.

Partition #2 in your example is only 1 GB to start with.
KNOPPIX will use at least 700Mb of that.
This leaves precious little for persistence in partition #2, anyway.

I would have thought the proportions would be the other way around
1 Gb in #1 and 3 Gb in #2 if #2 also get the persistence file.

Am I missing something here?

ps.. I liked your screen shot of the missing LXDE menu.
It looks like Halloween came early in Dietzenbach.

[Werner P. Schulz]

It is only an example. Each user can create the partitions as he like. And for rescue purpose I think it is better to have as much free space on a USB stick or an USB drive as possible to store stuff like "Documents" from a violated OS.

I liked your screen shot of the missing LXDE menu.
It looks like Halloween came early in Dietzenbach.

Halloween is only one night; but this error torments me since many days

[M8R-xi2q7t]

After "Prepare remaster environment", I see:

Edit all items of 'lang= ' and 'tz= ' as you need within
the file '/opt/knx/knoppix/boot/isolinux/knoppix.menu'!

While trying to follow the advice, I noticed the following in knoppix.menu:

KBDMAP german.kbd

If my keyboard is more of the US-persuasion, is there a recommended course of action?

[M8R-xi2q7t]

I went ahead and removed the KBDMAP line and so far haven't noticed any ill effects.

On a separate note, for some reason, /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig didn't appear in its appropriate location under the remaster directory. When I booted the resulting ISO, I noticed a message about not finding knoppix-autoconfig and neither the keyboard nor the pointing device appeared to work (at least, not under X).

Subsequently, I manually copied knoppix-autoconfig to /opt/knx/remaster/etc/init.d/ and rebuilt the ISO, and the result appears to behave much better.

I thought I had just followed the instructions at the "Summary: Own Rescue-CD with Knoppix" page -- using VirtualBox, checking the KNOPPIX CD checksum, etc.). Is there any information I might provide to try to understand what might have gone awry?

[Werner P. Schulz]

If you have a non-German version of Knoppix look at '/usr/share/kn-knoppix/save/isolinux.cfg' which item to use for "KBDMAP". Please tell me what you found there.

Greetings Werner

[M8R-xi2q7t]

Thanks for your response and help.

I am using a non-German version of Knoppix (EN). Searching for KBDMAP within /usr/share/kn-knoppix/save/isolinux.cfg yielded one line:

  # KBDMAP german.kbd

When attempting to edit an entry in the boot menu, I noticed that slash "/" was not where I expected it so I created a file named us.kbd via the keytab-lilo.pl script that comes with lilo. I replaced the german.kbd file with the resulting us.kbd and placed the following line in the .cfg file:

  KBDMAP us.kbd

This seemed to produce more familiar behavior.