Easy Install and Boot from USB Hard Drive?

[Erik Espinoza]

Use Knoppix, write to the usb drive for storage. It's safer that way.

Else take a look at damnsmalllinux or puppy linux, both of which are
easily made to boot off of a usb key. I had no issues using Puppy
Linux as a day to day recovery tool. Neither work really well as a
full blown distro. I've had good experiences with Knoppix, however
YMMV.

Personally I think it'd be easier to get those Nazi's to let you
install RHEL, since they have to pay for it and have a company behind
it and all those other bs reasons corporations do what they do.



On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:40:47 -0400, rab <rab at nauticom.net> wrote:
> I've asked similar questions before. I've been directed to using
> mkinitrd but it's kind of complicated. Does anyone know of a Linux
> distribution that would be easy to install to and boot from a USB hard
> drive? I thought the computer dept. at my old company was bad but the
> computer dept. people at the new job are just plain Nazi's and stupid
> besides. (One person told me she thought that Linux was not secure and
> was virus prone.) I would prefer to dual boot the machine but if I can't
> I would like to boot and run from an external USB drive. The new machine
> supports booting from a USB drive - I checked the BIOS setup. I don't
> want to install anything on the computer's hard drive although if I had
> to boot initially from a floppy I could live with that. Surely someone
> has a simple solution.
> 
> Rick B.
> 
> 
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