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Booting Knoppix from USB 2.0 Pendrives?

Posted by Cliff on 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!?"

2 of 28 comments (clear)

  1. mobile OS... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A Knoppix-CD + SSH to your home box and you already have that way of access. Or, use a notebook :)

  2. yeah, really cool by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imagine carrying around your whole OS, and necessary data on an encrypted pendrive!

    More likely:

    Imagine carrying around your whole OS and data you've been working on, and then pulling your keys out of your pocket and the drive falls into a storm drain!

    I'm really not too excited about ultra-tiny storage formats. A CD is about the right size to keep track of, a floppy in a hardcase is still OK. But...CompactFlash cards? Memory Stick? USB pendrives? Enough people lose their keys, socks, and wedding rings.

    A USB watch drive would be a nice solution. It's always there. Just make the watch reasonably easy to take on and off, and you've got a winner. Adding USB storage to cell phones would be nice as well.

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