Booting Knoppix from USB 2.0 Pendrives?

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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My experience

[Raleel]

It depends on whether your machine will boot from USB or not. AFAIK, no Dells will currently. Some other brands will though.

USB Hard Drive Link Is NOT A Hard Drive

[Cy Guy]

Booting from USB hard drives seems to work,

That link is to a pen drive type device, note the size of the drive is "16MB to 128MB". There are USB hard drives that are bootable, but require USB boot support in the BIOS.

How old is you PC, and what version is the BIOS? I would check with the BIOS manufacture and see if they claim USB booting is possible, you may need to flash your BIOS, or it may not be supported at all on your machine.

Re:A variation on the idea

[colonwq]

if you are using the KDE desktop:
KNOPPIX-> Configure-> Save KNOPPIX configuration

The KNOPPIX site has more information on how to save and reload a configuration file from a floppy.

I use something like this..

[xchino]

I have a 128 MB USB keydrive, and it's what I have my /boot partition on. Not incredibly useful, but pretty neat local security, cuz how are you going to boot without a /boot partition or access to the BIOS to change the boot sequence. It's a shame I never turn my computer off or it might have been something I could actually USE. Other than that I just carry around cool video clips and what not to show my friends.