Quote Originally Posted by cbagger01
The easy solution is to boot KNOPPIX from a USB drive, aka a "thumbdrive". There are instruction on how to do this in the forums. .....
Thumb drives can wear out from the kind of repeated access an OS like Knoppix puts on them. OK for an emergency recovery device to carry around, not advised for day to day use. And booting USB can be very problematic with any but the most recent computers. Another option that wasn't mentioned yet but would be much simpler and cheaper would to add an inexpensive PCI card with one or two more IDE ports (around ten bucks U.S. from Tiger and others) and then not worry about the 4 IDE device limitation. One could boot from the CD this way, but it would still be much better to build a file server like this with an installed OS such as Debian (on another hard drive outside of the RAID array) rather than with any Live CD.