total newbie needs help

[gizmo]

Firstly - I'm a total newbie at linux. I'm playing with it only for an day or two.
Secondly - my english sucks. Sorry.

Now, the question is:
How can I get knoppix to remember my settings regarding appearance of the desktop (size of icons, choice of wallpaper and color of the text) and some changes I made to the K-menu?
I've successfully determinated 'home' disk for the knoppix (mnt/hda6 - ext2 partition of aprox. 1.5GB) and created an swap file (mnt/hda7 - 270MB partition). I know how to login as an root ('knoppix single') and how to load configs I've previously saved ('knoppix single myconfig=/mnt/hda6')... but knoppix doesn't load changes I've previously made to the appearance of desktop and K-menu (K-menu = Start Menu in Winblows ). Also, it also forgets all my settings regarding custom language support (Croatian) and keyboard layout. What did I do wrong? What do I need to do so knoppix would remember these settings?

Thanks in advance.

[OErjan]

ou could save your home directory and the configs with the two comands (in the kde menus).
that is: klick yourself to these.

K-menu > KNOPPIX > Configuration > Create a persistent KNOPPIX home

AND (taken from the faq at http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqUsing )
directory

Go to the K-menu > KNOPPIX > Configuration and choose "save config", you can save to floppy or to an already existing partition on the harddrive. (on a windows partition s fine)
sadlt that about wndows only aplies if you do NOT have NTFS on the partition.

if you save to hdd you can reload the configs with the cheatcodes

boot: knoppix home=scan myconfig=scan (or give a correct path)
hope to help OErjan

[rickenbacherus]

Firstly - I'm a total newbie at linux. I'm playing with it only for an day or two.
Secondly - my english sucks. Sorry.

Welcome to Linux. I would suggest using a more appropriate subject line like: "Persistent home not working" rather than your chosen one. Just search through the forums with the word 'newbie' and see how many hits you get. Then see how many are actually of any use. A forum is created by the users. OK I'm done ranting.

So is it correct to understand that you are already telling Knoppix to save your configuration but it is not working? Does it save some things and not others? Forgive me as I have only toyed with this option of Knoppix as I do not use it in that way. Post more details if you can and perhaps someone with more experience using the persistent home feature of Knoppix can assist. Oh and BTW - you're English is fine.