[wplug] Knoppix Home File

[Vanco, Don]

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>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Weber, Larry A
>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:29 AM
>To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
>Subject: [wplug] Knoppix Home File
>
>
>I want to use a Knoppix 3.6 Live CD as a portable Linux.  For 
>a portable
>home file I would like to use a USB portable flash drive 
>(Sandisk Cruzer).
>The plan is to have a machine independent system.  Speed is no 
>real concern.
>Knoppix recognizes the USB flash drive (sda1) but in a read 
>only mode.  The
>same is true of HDA1 directories.  How do I change the 
>settings for these
>devices, particularly sda1?  Unmount and remount?
	Can you not simply issue:
mount -o remount,rw "device"  ??
	...but that won't help you on reboots....

>I would also like to store other configuration info on sda1 
>for things like my browser.  I have searched the Knoppix page but have
not 
>found any related
>info.  Can someone point out a resource for answers to theses 
>questions?
	Don't know enough about knoppix and passing init args - but
there needs to be some way to pass it /dev/sda1 as your home directory -
that would solve pretty much everything...  You might need to do some
minor tweeking and rebuild the knoppix ISO

Don