Knoppix 5.1.1 USB Installation process

Knoppix 5.1.1 USB Installation process:
Download the Knoppix 5.1.1 ISO and burn it to CD
Insert a 1GB or larger USB flash drive
Restart your Computer and boot from the Knoppix CD
Open up a terminal and type sudo su
Type fdisk -l note which drive is your USB stick (I.E: sda) Throughout this tutorial we use x as our flash drive letter. Replace x with your actual flash drive letter. For example, if your flash drive is sdb, replace x with b.
Type umount /dev/sdx1
Type fdisk /dev/sdx
type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it
type p again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat the previous step)
type n to make a new partition
type p for primary partition
type 1 to make this partition one
hit enter to use the default first cylinder
type +750M to make the partition 750 MB
type a to make this partition active
type 1 to select partition one
type t to change it’s file system
type 6 to select the fat16 file system
type n to make another new partition
type p for primary partition
type 2 to make this the second partition
hit enter to use the default first cylinder
hit enter again to use the default last cylinder
type w to write the new partition table
Type umount /dev/sdx1 to ensure the partition is unmounted
Type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n usb /dev/sdx1 to format the first partition
Type umount /dev/sdx2 to ensure the partition is unmounted.
Type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2 to format the second partition
Remove and reinsert your USB flash drive
Type mkdir /tmp/usb
Type mount /dev/sdx1 /tmp/usb
Type cd /cdrom
Type cp -rf KNOPPIX boot/isolinux/* /tmp/usb
Type cd /tmp/usb
Type mv isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg
Type cd
Type umount /tmp/usb
Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
Reboot your computer and set your system BIOS to boot from USB-HDD. Also set the boot priority to boot the USB device first if this option is available.
You should now be able to boot Knoppix 5.1.1 via your USB stick and use the Knoppix Persistent feature to save your changes back to the സ്ടിച്ക്.

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