Why would you want to do this?: playtime!, use your PC and accounts with
a failed HD, rescue data on a failed Windows, use somebody else's PC with
no impact...

I found penddrivelinux.com to be inspirational but unreliable.
Their link for USB Knoppix gave me a file I either couldn't extract, or
didn't work to make a bootable USB stick once i got it extracted.

I got Knoppix from ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/
Get the ...en.iso and the ...iso.md5 for the "checksum" (QuickPar will
work for this).

Create the Knoppix CD with Nero or whatever. Boot the CD.
If you like what you see, insert a bootable FAT formatted USB drive.

I formatted with the HP USB Format Tool linked to on pendrivelinux.com.
It may not be necessary. Qparted (QTparted?) on Knoppix may work.

I partitioned my drive with Qparted, giving 2, 1Gb, and 1, 2Gb partitions.
(Probably unnecessary). Knoppix itself is, guess what, .7Gb or so.

Using the Konsole (on the Knoppix taskbar) type mkbootdev.
It will give you a menu to create the USB Knoppix drive.
Create it.

Then click the Penguin>Configure>Persistent Home Directory.
I used the second partition. Probably doesn't matter.
This directory will give you the ability to customize, save data, etc.
Just like your "normal" hard drive.

On reboot it will be autodetected. You have to be able to boot from USB,
of course.

It works fine for me. I'm trying to adapt my PC activities to Knoppix,
and see what the limitations this method has.

I'm sending this with Windows...

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Dave S

Dave S wrote:
> Why would you want to do this?: playtime!, use your PC and accounts with
> a failed HD, rescue data on a failed Windows, use somebody else's PC with
> no impact...
>
> I found penddrivelinux.com to be inspirational but unreliable.
> Their link for USB Knoppix gave me a file I either couldn't extract, or
> didn't work to make a bootable USB stick once i got it extracted.
>
> I got Knoppix from ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/
> Get the ...en.iso and the ...iso.md5 for the "checksum" (QuickPar will
> work for this).
>
> Create the Knoppix CD with Nero or whatever. Boot the CD.
> If you like what you see, insert a bootable FAT formatted USB drive.
>
> I formatted with the HP USB Format Tool linked to on pendrivelinux.com.
> It may not be necessary. Qparted (QTparted?) on Knoppix may work.
>
> I partitioned my drive with Qparted, giving 2, 1Gb, and 1, 2Gb partitions.
> (Probably unnecessary). Knoppix itself is, guess what, .7Gb or so.
>
> Using the Konsole (on the Knoppix taskbar) type mkbootdev.
> It will give you a menu to create the USB Knoppix drive.
> Create it.
>
> Then click the Penguin>Configure>Persistent Home Directory.
> I used the second partition. Probably doesn't matter.
> This directory will give you the ability to customize, save data, etc.
> Just like your "normal" hard drive.
>
> On reboot it will be autodetected. You have to be able to boot from USB,
> of course.
>
> It works fine for me. I'm trying to adapt my PC activities to Knoppix,
> and see what the limitations this method has.
>
> I'm sending this with Windows...
>
> --
> Dave S
>
>
Whoops! I hope everybody found this, informative, useful, uhhh....
I hope at least it was accurate.

Ob Food: keep recipes on the drive!


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Dave S