boot from usb

[scubanator87]

i have been messing around with knoppix 4.0 for a while and out of the 10 or so live cds i have tried it seems to just work better. the only thing i havent gotten working is my dual moniter but i havent tried to hard on that one. heres my plight, i like the option of a cd. its just that i cd is fragile. and large. and some computers thqat i use dont have a cd drive open to me(comuunity computers). so i tried to use a usb booting os. how ever i only got puppy to work once and the 5 others that i tried wouldent load correclty. and i tried 2 diffrent usb keys. my sandisk 1gb and my dell 512mb. and i conciderded remastering knoppix to get just what i want so i dont have multiples of programs and programms i just wont use. but then i still have the same problem. i cant install it to a usb key. so if any one has any ideas or suggestions (please no partial instructions because i think that is one reasson people dont like lunix is because of the possibly confusing and partial instructions) i would greatly appreaceatie it. thanks...

[ruymbeke]

i have been messing around with knoppix 4.0 for a while and out of the 10 or so live cds i have tried it seems to just work better. the only thing i havent gotten working is my dual moniter but i havent tried to hard on that one. heres my plight, i like the option of a cd. its just that i cd is fragile. and large. and some computers thqat i use dont have a cd drive open to me(comuunity computers). so i tried to use a usb booting os. how ever i only got puppy to work once and the 5 others that i tried wouldent load correclty. and i tried 2 diffrent usb keys. my sandisk 1gb and my dell 512mb. and i conciderded remastering knoppix to get just what i want so i dont have multiples of programs and programms i just wont use. but then i still have the same problem. i cant install it to a usb key. so if any one has any ideas or suggestions (please no partial instructions because i think that is one reasson people dont like lunix is because of the possibly confusing and partial instructions) i would greatly appreaceatie it. thanks...
Looks like you didn't search for very long... Please have a look in here: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93758#93758
This thread also describes how to run knoppix from the hdd without creating a new partition for knoppix and without touching the mbr or the boot sector of your disk/partition. This is a very clean way and much faster way to run Knoppix than from the cd/dvd/usb. Please give me some feedback and let me if it works for you.
Best Regards, Gilles

[irlandes]

OP, did you use the boot floppy in puppy? They claim on goosee. to have a floppy iso which will load USB drivers, and let puppy boot from flash drive. I have it on future action list to look into that and see if it can be changed to boot other distros as well.