Bootable Live Linux distribution on Thumb drive
Many of my friends wanted to try Linux, but they were afraid about messing up the existing partitions on their hard drives. If you have a flash drive with atleast 1GB free space, here is a no risk program !
In my previous post about installing Linux on flash drive we discussed only about Ubuntu Linux. What if we want to try other flavors of Linux? Here comes UNetbootin. It’s a free software which could make your favorite Linux distribution to boot from a thumb drive.
You can either select an ISO image already downloaded or if you are having internet connection then can download Linux distro of your choice from the list of distributions.
No need to format your thumb drive in ext2/ext3. It’s a great advantage, that you could still use files in thumb drive on Windows. UNetbootin copies all the necessary files and makes it bootable.
We need to change boot order in BIOS : First boot device –> USB HardDisk
UNetbootin is an open source project hosted at sourceforge.net
Requirements
- Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista, or Linux. If you are having trouble with the Linux version, try the Windows version, it usually works better.
- A broadband internet connection to download the distribution’s .iso file (unless you’re using pre-downloaded files)
Download UNetbootin for Linux
Download UNetbootin for Windows.
More Information here
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nice post. I have done a post on the same topic.
http://hackingwithdebian.blogspot.com/2009/01/triple-booting-from-pen-drive.html
happy hacking.
@$rêëñ@dh
Thanks
your post on triple booting Linux distributions from pen drive is more enlightening.
keep up the good work.
hello vipin i failed to make the thumb drive bootable.
should v mak any changes in partition or some thing like dat ?
i heard dat v hav to make partion fat16 to make it bootable…
hi shobz, no need to make any changes in file system. UNetbootin will take care of all those things including the installation of Grub4Dos. btw, it is not necessary for a partition to be in fat16, to boot.
i use liveusb-creator
su -c yum install liveusb-creator
Its working fine for my fedora live on my Portable harddisk.
Thanx vipin.Please post more links for me to use internet from linux.
@Rahul
Thanks for the info. will give it a try.
@anish
Try Damn Small Linux (DSL) (~95MB)
It could run fully in 128MB RAM with FireFox, Games, XMMS MP3 and MPEG player, USB support and lot more.
more info.
the smallest boot i know http://jeanmichel.gens.free.fr/controle.php sorry it is in french but you have translators 🙂 16mo only you can use on all size disk and keys and SD ram