Knoppix Persistent Home

In Linux all of your application preferences (browser bookmarks, desktop backgrounds, saved desktop sessions, etc..) are stored in your home directory. It's kind of like the Window$ roaming profile, except it was designed this way from the very beginning, so it works very nicely. No messy registry merging, etc.. This means you can take your nice cozy environment to any x86 machine you have access to.

Probably the most convenient device for storing your home directory is on a USB thumb drive. This is the way we will cover, but you can store your home directory on any drive the machine has access to.

• To get started we boot Knoppix normally, then from the menu, go to Knoppix->Configure-> Create a Persistent KNOPPIX Home directory.
• Select the partition that your persistent home will reside on.
• Type the size of your home directory. The default 100MB is fine.
• Customize your settings.
• The next time you boot a system with Knoppix, have your USB thumb drive plugged in first and boot with the cheat code "home=scan". Don't forget "lang=us" first though ( "lang=us home=scan" ).
• You'll be prompted whether to load just load your home directory, load a writable system area, or load INIT scripts. Don't worry about the other two for now, just check the home directory option and press OK.
• You should now have your familiar environment on a totally foreign machine.