Here'es the deal, I have an old laptop here at work that has been overly used and thus the hard drive is dead, infact the caddy is missing. Also the CD-ROM has a laser that no longer moves, thus no functionality there either. On top of those two, the USB will not boot.

On the plus side, I have a working floppy and USB. I managed to get DSL to boot using a boot floppy loading DSL-Embedded (with syslinux) that was copied over to the USB flash drive. It works, but DSL is very minimal compared to Knoppix.

Is there a USB boot flopppy option? I haven't seen one in searching as of yet.