Quote Originally Posted by dwstarke View Post
Hate to throw cold water on all this remastering, but is it possible that someone who has created a minimalist knoppix that still does hardware-detection and creates the unionfs with persistence could just make it available? I'm having trouble in this area also and would like to start from the smallest possible iso. If someone has such a beast, please make it available.
Well, I see that you probably don't know how easy remasterings can be done nowadays I have even remastered running in a virtual machine under qemu, so the pc may still be used for all other things during remastering. Remastering from your own adaptation is almost always faster, safer and simpler than working out from someone else's.

I also see that you probably haven't worked much with upgrading. Having created minimal versions of a few Knoppix releases manually, that's a thing of the past for me. That very effect may be one reason why there seem to be few updated minimalist Knoppix offerings nowadays. I would guess many in need of such things will rather work out from Ubuntu's version of debootstrap - which I have turned to myself, too. Chrooting into that from Knoppix is, IMHO, one of the most efficient ways to achieve minimalism available right now.

A Knoppix version of debootstrap would let you create those beasts you are looking for quickly, easily and safely