Help me choose, pls

[Unclefragger]

huh? I think Knoppix rescued systems long before anyone heard of *untu ...

[natirips]

I know knoppix was burning CRTs (by forcing some insane refresh rates) long before Ubuntu did that.

[wurst]

however, they are both debian forks.
one tend to be a live cd, the other 1 targets on desktop use.

[zietsh]

Hey, just wanted to say I've now got Linux Mint Lisa, cause somehow Linux Mint Debian did not work on the USB-Drive... tried to solve that but without success.
I'm quite happy with it did not run into any problems yet...

[wurst]

is the usb legacy device support turned on?
is the partition on the usb stick "a primary partition" and is the "boot" flag set?
hm...

[natirips]

...

Which reminds me: as far as Linux is concerned there isn't much of a difference between USB Flash drive, USB HDD or internal HDD.

The only problem with USB drives and different computers is that different computers can make the same USB drive /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd, etc.; and GRUB doesn't like that. That's why you'll maybe need another boot loader. Look here for a hint or two http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders .
P.S.: Something from the SYSLINUX collection is what you probably want.

[havoc]

mm...
grub is configured by default to use uids instead since some years ago, just for that reason.

[natirips]

I still find GRUB to be unreliable for booting from USB stick.

[wurst]

Ticking teh fucking boot flag on a PRI partition is OS independent afaik^^

[natirips]

What I meant was that anything Linux- (the kernel) -based runs "equally" on almost any storage device, regardless of particular distro.