markwolfe Veteran Posted November 7, 2007 Veteran Share Posted November 7, 2007 Just for those who want to be able to take a Knoppix (and presumably other distro) LiveCD and get it booting off a USB stick, I have just tested the following procedure and it worked great: http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Bootable_USB_Key Only differences I had were: I had to su to root at the "syslinux" or "mount" steps. Forget which one, exactly, but if you do this and it doesn't work, su to root. The mount step didn't quite work for me, possibly due to a powerloss (was running laptop off of batteries). Instead of trying to mount it to /media/sdb4 (where it was located on my system), I just did a mkdir /media/sdbb to create a temporary mount point and re-did the command to my newly created point. The umount command would not let me unmount the USB stick, even after the cd and sync. I just issued a reboot command. That worked. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krpano Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Ill test it as soon as i get my USB key back... Thx for the link MJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Hrm, this looks pretty nifty. Need to get a decent sized USB stick though. (still using a 128MB one) Thanks for the heads up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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