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 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Here is an option, > > Use VMware workstation and point the New Virtual Machine Wizard to a > folder 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 at 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Thx Joshua Gimer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060625/ed9b2617/attachment-0005.html>