The live cd allows you to save your personal settings to a flash drive. As far as booting from one like knoppix, I am not sure. Just so you know th live CD doesn't save settings like your printers.conf for CUPS and your dial-up settings for modem connections. I have had a great experiences with the live CD, except with the limitations above. If you are not going to use the installation very much this might be a great alternative.
On 6/25/06, Eric Davis kristopherdavis@gmail.com wrote:
Here is an option,
Use VMware workstation and point the New Virtual Machine Wizard to afolder on your external USB drive. Install CentOS there. Be sure to select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 so the proper drivers will be loaded. This will allow your XP system to stay intact and allow you to run CentOS at the same time. I do this with my Latitude and it still runs quite fast! This doesn't directly solve your problem but is an option.
Eric D
On 6/24/06, Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner@ieee.org wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 03:01 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Mike wrote:
Greetings CentOS Fans.
I'm working on an Inspiron 9400 Laptop. It supports booting from
USB
devices, so I'd like to install CentOS on a USB hard drive as an alternative to XP.
this might not help you, but just so you know - CentOS-4 does not support installing to or booting from usb drives. You might still be able to do it using some trick or the other, but officially its not supported.
Haven't gotten around to trying the CentOS Live CD yet. Does it support customization on a USB key (like Knoppix)?
LiveCD+USB key might serve the OP's purpose as an XP alternative. (Or -
my preference - just shrink the XP partition and dual-boot if that is an option for you [e.g. not somebody else's laptop].)
Phil
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