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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!?"
I have booted the knoppix cd, and it is cool and all, but I don't like having to set up the basics each time. Can you customize it so that it has your email settings, and net connection scripts, etc. on it? If you could, and you can get it on a usb key drive, then it would be kind of cool to walk up to any pc, plop in your keychain, reboot the thing and have your desktop up and running the way you like it.
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Why not just get a small pack of blank business card sized CDRs and throw whatever bootable OS you want on it. Carry the OS and whatever other files you want in your wallet. Works for me, and most current BIOS's will at least boot via CD.
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.. instead, just customise your knoppix cd to load /home/knoppix from USB pendrive. That way all your data is stored on the thumbdrive but not knoppix.
How are you going to fit 700MB on a thumb drive anyway?
What about using a floppy (or floppy image on CD el Toro I beleive) that has enough kernel support to start booting the usb device, if you use modules you can just keep a bare basics kernel on the floppy.
I did something like this one to boot a linux install I did to a scsi zip drive hooked up to a non-bios-bootable scsi card. Kinda slow but that was the zip drive/disk fault.