[PLUG] combination bootable Knoppix & FAT partition on USB Flash Drive

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Sep 3 16:01:49 UTC 2005


On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, AthlonRob wrote:

> The more difficult tasks were getting a working bootloader and modifying
> the boot scripts to look for a USB stick instead of just a CD. I fought and
> fought to get syslinux or isolinux to work on a USB stick (one of them
> advertised that as being possible at the time) but eventually gave up and
> used GRUB instead. Google should be able to help you configure GRUB
> properly to work - it didn't install properly for me, forcing me to install
> it again from within the grub prompt booted off the USB stick.

Rob,

   I believe that LJ had an article recently on several tiny linuxes that
could fit on a USB thumb. It had instructions for getting them working, too,
IIRC.

Rich

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