The KNOPPIX flash station

At hall 9, booth C39-30, visitors can bring their own USB flashdisk in order to get installed with KNOPPIX. *)

*) Specifications: The USB flashdisk should be partitioned and preformatted with a single primary FAT32 or FAT16 partition, with sufficient free space for KNOPPIX. In order to install the CD version 6.2.1, one (1) GB is needed, for the DVD version 6.3, at least 5 GB must be available- SD cards and other flash media can be installed, too. Flashing takes about 10 to 20 minutes for the full DVD size, depending on the supported writing speed. Usually, flash media will not be ereased or re-partitioned when being filled with KNOPPIX data, however, we cannot provide any warranty against data loss of any kind, or even media defects! Please label your flashdisks accordingly, so they won't get lost or misplaced.

General Information: Booting KNOPPIX from Flash

Most modern computers support booting from USB flashdisk or cardreaders today. Sometimes, keyboard combinations have to be pressed during start, in order to get a boot menu, like F8, F12 or Escape.

In order to create a bootable USB-medium (memory flashdisk, SD-card, digital camera with USB connector, cellphone with microSD, ...), the program flash-knoppix can be started from a running Knoppix DVD system. This program installs all needed Knoppix files onto the FAT-formatted flashdisk, and creates a boot record for it. Other files on the medium stay intact, since no repartitioning or formatting is done by flash-knoppix.

After having copied the system to flash, using the persistent Knoppix image (overlay feature), it is possible to also store files permanently in live mode. That way, personal settings and additionally installed programs survive a reboot.