Can one run knoppix on a computer without a harddrive?

**highvolt4g3** · 04-06-2010, 05:45 PM

Hey, my friend has a laptop whose harddrive broke and she just needs to run it until the end of the semester. Would it be possible to run Knoppix or a live cd of linux as the operating system, without the harddrive working? She has an external harddrive as well, could that somehow be used to help with this?

**mutton** · 04-06-2010, 07:53 PM

F12, boot from CD
(or boot from USB for the external hard drive, if an OS is installed on it)

**ShitFace** · 04-07-2010, 10:06 AM

Yeah, get a knoppix live cd and boot from the cd drive.

**Harner** · 04-07-2010, 10:48 AM

What these guys said.

The concept of a Live Linux CD is to eliminate the need of a HDD to run an OS. Knoppix and other variants like Morphix will work great. I think even Ubuntu has a live cd. SLAX (Slackware) is another good alternative.