Booting Knoppix from USB 2.0 Pendrives?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday November 14, 2002 @03:39AM from the better-than-floppies dept.

David Eliasson asks: "Ive been trying to make Knoppix boot on my Pendrive without success. Booting from USB hard drives seems to work, however, so I guess this drive could do the trick, but it doesn't support USB 2.0, making it rather slow. Does anyone have a better experience with this? I would like to use the local harddrive as a huge AFS-cache. Imagine carrying around your whole OS, and necessary data on an encrypted pendrive! If users have problems, then you just plug in the drive and reimage it. Isnt this a great idea!?"

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Re:yeah, really cool by uradu · 2002-11-14 05:25 · Score: 5, Funny

> I'm really not too excited about ultra-tiny storage formats.

If it's too tiny for you, permanently attach it to a brick or a 2x4 or anything else you consider a handy size. Don't hobble everyone else with bulky formats just because you're prone to losing your keys. Given small things it's easy to make them larger, but it's much harder to make large things smaller.