Linux on a USB Drive?

[Anon_F]

Could i load & run Linux from an 8GB USB Flash drive?
And then change the boot up so i can boot from the Flash Drive?

 

[muckshifter]

yep ...

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-knoppix-531-install-using-windows/

... and they make it easy 'cos they use Windows to do it.

or

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

 

[Anon_F]

Cheers Muckshifter.

A project for Monday/Tuesday.

 

[Urmas]

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-knoppix-531-install-using-windows/

... and they make it easy 'cos they use Windows to do it.

Of course, nobler operating systems come with USB-creator preinstalled:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Live_USB_creator

 

[Ian]

I went for the Ubuntu Live creator and it worked a treat for me . I've got it on a stick just in case I need a quick recovery

 

[Quadophile]

I went for the Ubuntu Live creator and it worked a treat for me . I've got it on a stick just in case I need a quick recovery

I remember you were contemplating for Linux on a stick since I mentioned "puppy on a stick" a while back and flops had a chuckle reading my post.

I have installed Linux on a few systems like that and got a few to convert from Windows to Linux. Two weeks back it was a relative who had serious problems with his system due to being infected with virus. Next week it would be my co-worker who is waiting for his new monitor to be delivered.

Linux is getting more and more user friendly and now is a piece of cake for most users who do not belong to the so called geek category.

 

[Urmas]

A bit of [unsolicited] advice:

If you want to be 100% sure that your "bootable stick" actually does boot in all computers (that support booting from USB devices to begin with), do NOT create a "persistent bootable USB drive" – that is, one that is able to save your settings etc.

I usually carry a persistent bootable [Ubuntu] stick with me, and a while ago I was asked to do an install on a eMachines [Acer, really] netbook.

D'oh. Didn't recognize the stick as bootable media. I created a "dummy" non-persistent stick, and no problems. Some netbook BIOSes are funny that way, it seems.

 

[Quadophile]

A bit of [unsolicited] advice:

If you want to be 100% sure that your "bootable stick" actually does boot in all computers (that support booting from USB devices to begin with), do NOT create a "persistent bootable USB drive" – that is, one that is able to save your settings etc.

I usually carry a persistent bootable [Ubuntu] stick with me, and a while ago I was asked to do an install on a eMachines [Acer, really] netbook.

D'oh. Didn't recognize the stick as bootable media. I created a "dummy" non-persistent stick, and no problems. Some netbook BIOSes are funny that way, it seems.

This is not unsolicited advice, but great advise. Your input would be I am sure valuable to many.

 

[Urmas]

Your input would be I am sure valuable to many.

[font=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]Up from Earth's Centre through the seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.

--The Artist Formerly Known as Omar K.


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[Abarbarian]

You could try this tool to install almost any GNU/Linux Distro on a stick.

http://aligunduz.org/FUSBi/

I ain't tried it meself but I have read that it works just fine.

I have tried and successfully installed all the below to USB sticks and me niece is using Knoppix Adriane from a stick and is very pleased with it. She found it easy to use even though she had only previously used Windows XP.

http://www.knoppix.net/

http://www.kanotix.org/changelang-eng.html

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php/Main_Page

http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Overview and Getting Started.htm

http://www.slax.org/

As you can see the GNU/Linux world is made up of more than Ubuntu

 

[Silverhazesurfer]

I am having an issue with Multiboot ISO loading the Grub4DOS menu properly. I see that the menu.lst file is there, but when the system boots the drive that menu blinks on the screen and begins to search for the menu.lst. Once it doesn't find the menu.lst, I am left at the GRUB> prompt. I have been able to get it to boot to the UBCD menu, but in a multi ISO boot scenario, I expect to load the Grub menu to access the various options. I am looking to put in UBCD, Ubuntu 10 and a windows iso.

I can get a usb drive to boot to a single instance of the iso. EX: only UBCD configured, it automatically boots to the UBCD menu and not the GRUB me