Boot from USB

Im curently just playhing around with knoppix, booting it off the HD using the ISO. I was wondering if there is a method to boot off the cd then use the bootfrom= to point to a USB flash drive? i have teh ISO on it now. I was also wondering if there is a way to save the changes i make to the USB drive too, lets say I install a program or even change the desktop image.

Thanks

Like Kanotix, the latest Knoppix 3.9 comes with the bootusb2 boot option. In other words, the Knoppix 3.9 CD is capable to boot from USB devices such as external USB CDROM drive.

You may follow these instructions to achieve your goal.

http://wiki.kanotix.net/CoMa.php?CoMa=usb-stickEN

In fact, rather than PMI, I did a full installation to a USB HDD. For full installation, attention is required when:

1. setting up your GRUB boot loader.
2. upgrading kernel will need some changes on the kernel settings because SCSI device support and SCSI disk support are compiled into kernel in Knoppix, you may need to compile them into modules and then make your own initrd with the mkinitrd tool.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by plimoman

Im curently just playhing around with knoppix, booting it off the HD using the ISO. I was wondering if there is a method to boot off the cd then use the bootfrom= to point to a USB flash drive? i have teh ISO on it now. I was also wondering if there is a way to save the changes i make to the USB drive too, lets say I install a program or even change the desktop image.Thanks

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Have a look at the end of this forum: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11796
I boot knoppix of my USB dongle (no hd, no cd, no network, just the usb dongle...)
The BIOS boots dos from the usb dongle, config.sys loads grub.exe, grub loads the kernel and initrd_ntfs ramdisk, and knoppix boots of the iso file on my 1gb pqi usb dongle. Hope this help, Gilles