James,

do you have the step by step instructions for making the mandrake 10.1 usb device?

i just bought the mandriva flash key (it hasnt arrived yet) but would LOVE to have hat on a 120gb usb hd.

if you have them or knw the location i'd love an email.

thanks

j

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quote="James419"]I am using both PCLinuxOS 8 and Mandriva (Mandrake) 10.1 on external USB hard drives. My drives are USB 2.0 and I think that USB 1.1 would be a problem. Mandriva even sell a USB hard drive with Mandriva 10.1 preinstalled. It includes both a floppy and cd bootdisk for systems that can not boot for USB drives. The Mandriva 10.1 Offical installation lets you make these two disks if wanted.

I use the USB drives as I wish to try and learn about linux without having my wife complain that she does not have Windows for her use. I have set my system to boot from USB first- the only thing is I have to remember to either cut off or remove my USB drives to boot to the ide drive.

I have not thied to install Knoppix but have installed Debian Sarge- I need to do some work with the boot as I get a kernel panic on boot up still.

I also have booted Win 98 from a Iomegs Zip 250 USB drive on my computer.

System- Dell Dimension 3000, P4, 512MB memory, 80GB Windows ide drive, 2 external 80GB linux drives and a 15GB external USB drive with Mandriva 10.1.

Many distributions will not easily boot from USB- I have gotten many kernek panic messages trying.

Jim
(also new to linux- less than 4 months trying)[/quote]