<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On Friday 17 September 2010 04:41 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTik5nTqhXQ9V6MWcffjb3SfDm39WCfDAsme4YGVm@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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.</pre> </blockquote> Thnx for you replies and explanations there is one hd install script for noppix ... and it works fine ... it installs OS on usb drive like normal HDD   Warm Regards <div class="moz-signature">-- <style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { }</style> Jatin Khatri Web <a href="http://www.khatrijatin.co.nr/">www.khatrijatin.co.nr</a> <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin">www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin</a> Phone (+91) 98250 20393 Save Paper, Save Environment.** (Plant at least one tree in your life and nurture it !!!) </div> </body> </html>