A Live USB is a USB flash drive designed to act like a Live CD. An operating system is installed to it and it may be booted, but it does not install itself on the computer's hard drive(s).
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Cloning a bootable USB stick to a different-size stick
HARDWARE: 2 8gb usb flash drives
DISTRO: xfce mint 9 persistent live cd
One usb flash drive has two partitions:
1) fat32 700MB Mint 9 partition
2) ext3 7.3GB casper-rw partition
GOAL:
I want to make ...
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How do I partition a USB drive so that it's bootable and has a Windows-compatible data storage partition?
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I have a 16gb flash drive, which I want a live ISO to boot from (via unetbootin or something similar). It'll be some 32bit distro that I can plug-in and boot on whatever computer I ...
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Booting linux from usb using EFI
I need to use a USB drive as an installation media for my Mint and Ubuntu.
For that I have unetbootin to make the usb bootable.
But my PC only supports EFI boot (while adding the boot device, I need ...
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How do you install Grub2 on a USB stick?
How do you install Grub2 on a bootable USB stick?
Somewhere I've heard that Grub2 can boot directly from ".iso" images,
so I'm hoping Grub2 will make it easy to drag-and-drop several "liveCD" iso ...
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Can a Linux install be moved from one computer to another?
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I have a 16gb flash drive which I want to contain a portable Linux install. If I could just install Knoppix onto the flash drive, and have that work on any computer, I could do that. ...
