Comments on: How to boot Knoppix 4.0 from a USB Flash Drive

By: provels

provels — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:15 +0000

Thanks for the article. Taking this a little further afield.. I used Syslinux 3.63 and Ubuntu 8.04 on my Razr phone with a 1GB flash and the general instructions here. I used -sma in syslinux (not sure I needed to…) and renamed the isolinux folder and .cfg to syslinux. That’s it. Amaze your friends!

By: Harsh

Harsh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:40:31 +0000

@ James,

Thanks mate. will definitely Google up what you have suggested.

Yeah, it will renew my efforts for what I was trying since long time.

Have a good time.

- Harsh

By: James

James — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:01:19 +0000

WoW!! As helpful as the linux community is I can’t believe no one
responded to ‘Harsh’, Harsh your thumbdrive instal lacks ‘persistance’

This problem is common in thumbdrive linux installs since by default the
LiveCD (which is what you are really using) doesn’t save anything
anywhere other than to RAM. Try using google to look-up ‘making USB
persistant’ or ‘Casper -rw’

Hope that helps if you are still looking for an answer, or I hope it renews
your efforts if you gave up on this great project due to lack of info O.O

-James

By: Harsh

Harsh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:47:49 +0000

Hey, Thanks a Ton buddy. I was able to run KNOPPIX via my USB & extremely happy seeing it.

** Now the only problem is, I m writting a few SHELL SCRIPTS which m not able to recover later On. It gets saved & retrieved untill my session lasts. Once I reboot, all changes and files are disappeared.

– Any solutions to this is Highly appreciated.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:07:45 +0000

Thanks for the help. With syslinux 3.54 Knoppix 5.1.1 for a Dell Latitude D505 I also needed to do syslinux.exe with -sma options to make the USB recognized as bootable by the bios (Phoenix). Also note, more recent syslinux will look in /boot/syslinux for syslinux.cfg. So you don’t need to copy all to the root. Just rename the isolinux dir to syslinux, and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg (and delete isolinux.bin, but that might not be needed).

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:14:55 +0000

I have quite new laptop (HP nc6000) which does not support USB boot. I also heard there are CD helpers containing just loaders enabling USB stick usage after initial boot. Would be nice if someone could give any reference. Google etc do not help.

By: everyone

everyone — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:41:30 +0000

in using syslinux I have to use -sma in order to make the the usb key really bootable
I used winrar to extract from the iso

By: Fltpro

Fltpro — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:18:16 +0000

Used a Lexar 1 GB jumpdrive, syslinux 3.52 and the latest Knoppix 5.1.1. ISO. Instructions above would not work until I “formatted” the jumpdrive with hpusbfw.exe. Formatting with the XP “format” program would not work. The hpusbfw.exe program formatted the jumpdrive (by default) in FAT32. After the format, the instructions above worked smoothly.

By: MaHuJa

MaHuJa — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:36:03 +0000

For these purposes (recovering files from an iso image), isobuster will also do the job nicely, without messing with the system (adding virtual drives etc) the way daemon tools etc will.

And I can confirm that the data on the stick is not touched. Just make sure you have enough space left over - preferably not fragmented.

By: Wouter

Wouter — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:15:57 +0000

coldfloral Says:

July 26th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
A little late to the game, but I need help.

“Now mount the Knoppix ISO that you downloaded earlier. You can do this using a program like WinISO or by simply burning it to CD.”

How exactly does one mount the Knoppix ISO using WinISO? I’m totally lost, so any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Use 7zip, that can open a iso and can unzip the iso