USB stick and some help with it.

[Quartz]

>> Anyway, Knoppix is a little quirky at times. He might be better off
>> trying Ubuntu Server or Debian or something.
>
> A better way of wording this:
>
> Although Knoppix is designed and intended to be a full version of linux
> that can be run off a cd, it pulls a couple strings to make that happen
> and so some things have issues. He doesn't need a full running distro
> complete with gui just to dd a usb drive though, he can just boot an
> installer and drop into shell/rescue mode.

And of course this entire discussion is assuming he only has a single 
computer available to him, which is probably unlikely.