From madadmin's review on Mad Penguin (http://madpenguin.org/Article757.html):
"A feature that is being implemented (but not quite ready) is the ability to use a USB mass storage device such as a pen drive as your/home partition. This option is specified at the lilo prompt by typing:
livecd home=usb
When I used this option, I booted the machine and logged in as the 'demo' user with KDE.
Immediately I received a DCOP error: "Could not read network connection list./home/demo/.DCOPserver_localhost_0. Please check that the dcopserver program is running".
Logging in as root works fine, as the system mounts/home onto the USB drive, not/root. When I logged in I checked the contents of the device and it had the demo directory in it that appeared to have all the right permissions... AND was full of profile-related files. The drive had plenty of free space as well, so I am not so sure what was going on here. To test even further, I attempted to log into GNOME too, but that proved futile. It would hang at the '2.4' splash screen. I left it alone, scratching my head.
When all of the bugs are worked out, this will be an awesome feature for those of us who have important files that may need to accompany us in our travels. I am curious if anyone else has implemented such a feature with other live Linux CDs. If not, they need to start immediately. Texstar has a great idea here."
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From madadmin's review on Mad Penguin (http://madpenguin.org/Article757.html):
"A feature that is being implemented (but not quite ready) is the ability to use a USB mass storage device such as a pen drive as your
livecd home=usb
When I used this option, I booted the machine and logged in as the 'demo' user with KDE.
Immediately I received a DCOP error: "Could not read network connection list.
When all of the bugs are worked out, this will be an awesome feature for those of us who have important files that may need to accompany us in our travels. I am curious if anyone else has implemented such a feature with other live Linux CDs. If not, they need to start immediately. Texstar has a great idea here."