LinuxDevCenter.com: Using and Customizing Knoppix [Nov. 20, 2003]: "You will need the following skills to customize the Knoppix Linux Live-CD:
You must be comfortable with the command line.
You must understand how to create partitions on your hard drive.
You must understand basic bash scripting.
You should be familiar with a Linux bootloader.
You must understand how to add swap memory (using the dd, mkswap, and swapon utilities), unless you have 1GB of RAM.
You should be comfortable installing, updating, and removing software packages using the Debian distribution of Linux."