Well, I am not sure where to put this, but i'll put it here

I got this little plan in my head:

Is it possible to pt the contents of the Knoppix Live boot CD on a 5 GB partition of my external HD? So, it will be like this...
I go to my friends house, choose the USB storage as boot... it boots Knoppix, but it scans for hardware and installs it, i can use XMMS, Gaim, MPlayer and stuff... but then i go to school (completely different sound card) en than it detects that card, installs driver and i am able to use it... so at every boot from the HD it looks for hardware and the right drivers it installs...

But is that possible? i don't mean installing some distro with the drivers that will only work for the hardware in my computer at home... but with completely different hardware, all hardware will be installed..

I hope you guys understand what i mean and know a solution...

Greetings,
Erik

ps. I don't know if the Knoppix install to a HD does what I mean? It must install the hardware for the hardware in that computer at that time...

I don't think the BIOS will boot from a USB drive. The ability to boot from a USB drive just isn't worth the additional BIOS code to fully support USB.

Hi Erik - if your bios supports USB boot you should be able to do something like that. My m/board is about 18 months old and will boot from a USB flash card reader, so I guess a USB HD would also work.

There are lots of clever things to do with knoppix discussed at www.knoppix.net. You can install to hard disk (decompress and copy all the files from the CD) or you can also transfer the compressed ISO CD image to disk and boot from that (if I understand correctly). The knoppix site had lots more detail.

I believe the epia motherboards all support usb booting, from usb-hdd, cd or floppy.

G.