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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USB Hard Drive Link Is NOT A Hard Drive by Cy+Guy · 2002-11-14 05:50 · Score: 5, Informative

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.

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