An alternative to re-mastering for CD-size Knoppix flash disks.

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Greetings, Knoppix LiveUSB fans.

Attached please find two png screen snapshots to introduce you to
a script to manage Knoppix compressed image updates and persistence
files. The snapshots show two menus the script stackimu uses to
control the 'management' processes. The script is provided in
gzipped format.

If you are interested, I hope you will find or prepare a clone of a
recent Knoppix LiveUSB with persistence and try it out. Preferably
a LiveUSB derived from a Knoppix 7+ LiveCD, since that's what I use
all the time.

If you don't know what this is all about, you might first read a rambly
'Draft' within the Stacked.Images folder. You can read this 'Draft'
with leafpad alone if you wish, or with stackimu.

To get the whole picture you will need a working LiveUSB clone of Knoppix 7+
with a persistence file containing some added program material you would
like to safeguard by turning it into a compressed image update.

To do so, download the Stacked.Images.####.tar.gz file to your clone's
/home/knoppix directory, unzip it there with the command tar xvfz *.gz,
cd into your new Stacked.Images folder and there execute stackimu as knoppix
user with the command ./stackimu.

If you want to check the *tar.gz download, use the command,
echo "5e7142945d562c186cfe6c37683ee878 Stacked.Images.1106.tar.gz" | md5sum -c
and, note there must be exactly TWO spaces between the checksum and the filename.

As knoppix user examine stackimu's menus and text files and find out what
it is designed to do. After studying this material, if you want to try it
out more seriously, quit as knoppix user and begin again as root with the
command sudo ./stackimu.

I've used this technique myself for some time now on a LiveUSB made from
a Knoppix LiveCD built on a 2 Gb SDHC USB device and it suits my needs.
I hope you will find it useful as well. I would not be surprised to hear
that it may fail in some DVD-size situations, and certainly for any case
that a cloop tries to exceed 2 Gb.

Preview post does not clearly confirm *tar.gz upload, but here goes.