I hope someone can point out what I'm missing :) It's been bugging me for several Knoppix releases now.

When running Knoppix from CD (which remains amazing in all it contains), a very handy feature is that USB storage devices simply show up on the desktop as another drive icon when they're plugged in: a USB flash reader lets me get the pictures from my digital camera, and a USB external hard drive lets me transfer large files machine-to-machine.

However, after putting Knoppix on the HD, it seems that this automounting is turned off. Is there a simple way to restore it?

(Yesterday, to transfer a bunch of files, I rebooted my knoppix machine with the CD despite having Knoppix installed on the hard drive, just because that made the transfer as easy as plugging in a USB flash drive and dragging some files to it.)

There are a few other minor differences in behavior between from-CD and running-from-HDD Knoppix, but the others are mostly in favor of the HDD install. (Like on the particular machine I'm playing with now, cursed with an old, weak video card, running from CD means 8-bit color; from HDD the default seems to have jumped to 16-bit.)

timothy