There is a significant difference between installing to a HDD and making a liveUSB. In the first case the entire file system is extracted on to the hard disk.
On a USB you dont "install", you copy the compressed file system and then make it bootable. This is to prevent frequent read/writes to the USB flash memory which will reduce its life. I dont know about knoppix, but *buntu has Startup disk creator that is very good to make a USB drive bootable. Knoppix should have a similar program. After all its the first live CD. Unetbootin should work for most others. Fedora and Opensuse have their own LiveUSB creators. On 9/17/10, Nitesh Mistry <mail...@mistrynitesh.net> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:52:11PM +0530, Jkhatri wrote: >> On Friday 17 September 2010 01:20 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:08:24AM +0530, Jkhatri wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Anyone can light on this, >>>> >>>> I'm installing Linux on my usb 16GB stick , but I'm wondering why only >>>> vfat partition is needed to install the Linux on usb stick , why we >>>> can't use extX type of FS to install the Linux???? is it necessary to >>>> have vfat partition to install Linux instead of its native FS... ? is >>>> there any solution for this ? >>>> >>>> >>>> I came to know that , SYSLINUX uses vfat .... thats why it is required >>>> ... but the same thing never happened in case of HDD ... I never >>>> formated my hdd with vft to install Linux, it boots from extX type of >>>> partition ... then why we need to format usb stick with vfat ???? >>>> >>> You are mixing up two different things here, or may be I have >>> misunderstood your query - >>> >>> Are you trying to *install* linux on the usb stick or creating a *Live >>> USB Stick* >>> >> I'm trying to install KNOPPIX on usb stick > > So this is what I visualise you doing: > = Boot the computer with Knoppix cd > = Attach the USB stick > = Click/Select Install > = Click Next, Next, Next until you reach Disk Partitioning stage > = Here, select the USB disk as target > > and the only option you see on the list of filesystem formats is vfat? > > Sounds really strange to me! > > > -- > Regards, > Nitesh Mistry > www.mistrynitesh.com > > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GB/J/IT/O>TW d+(-) s+:+>: a- C+ UL>+++ P L++>+++ !E W++ N* o? K? w--- O? M-- > V? PS+() PE(++)(-) Y+ PGP+ t 5? X R tv+ b+ DI D G e+++>++++ h-- !r y? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > -- Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
