I am nearly sure that my question was already answered. If so, please address me to that point that I was unable to find and accept my apologies.

For a scientific travel - unaware of the hardware I'll found - I plan to bring with me KNOPPIX 5.0.1 on CD and an external USB/Fireware HD (I dropped the idea of flash card because uncertain if it will run on any hardware - I had problems with mine - and very expensive in large size) for my data and special programs. That is, I would like to put on the external HD my debian home which includes both pure debian programs and wine for a couple of non-unix programs I need.

I do not intend to remaster KNOPPIX (if not essential to what I intend to do), nor of running it from HD because speed is no problem for what I need.

I just got the USB/Firewire HD to be partitioned, formatted, and worked out.

Thanks a lot for any help.

francesco pietra