Thanks that link is really helpful

my plan was to install knoppix on to a flash drive.
install drbl for imaging, ophcrack, and put a few other shell scripts on the desktop... then just use tux2live to make an iso...

clonezilla is pretty insanely easy to use via the live cd.. installing it on knoppix is pretty crazy. thanks for letting me konw about the Impatient method that sounds like it should work for me