Quote Originally Posted by quadphonic
Greetings,

I have installed KNOPPIX v6.0.1 to USB flash stick using the utility on the Live-CD, but have subsequently learned that my computer's BIOS does not support booting from USB.

Is it possible to use the Live-CD to boot from USB, perhaps with a command from the "Boot:" prompt?

I am new to Linux and want to use the terminal in KNOPPIX to learn UNIX shell script and directory structures, and would prefer to do so from the "safe" environment of a USB flash disk, rather than attempting to install to the hard disk.

Thank you in anticipation
1. Burn a Knoppix v6.0.1 on the CD.

2. Make sure your BIOS setting can boot from the CD drive first.

3. Insert the CD to your machine.

4. Power on the machine and let it boot all the way to the X-window appears.

5. Now insert your USB stick to the machine, knoppix will find your USB stick and will assign a device name to it. It could be sdb1 or sdb4 depends how you create your USB stick to boot format.

6. Remember that device name: I assume it is sdb1 and I will use this name until the end of this message.

7. OK, now shutdown the knoppix.

8. Remove your USB stick after the machine is shutdown.

9. Re-insert the USB stick to the machine. Leave the CD in the CD drive.

10. Power on the machine again.

11. When it boots up, it will boot from the CD and the Knoppix screen will appear.

12. At that time, key in the following:

Code:
knoppix   bootfrom=/dev/sdb1
The USB stick will take over the boot process and after the boot, leave the USB stick on the machine while you are using knoppix but you can remove your cd from your machine.

Step 1 to 8 only need to do it once. Every subsequence boot start from step 9 to 12.

Rgds,
Chip