A live CD is a CD or DVD containing a bootable, instantly usable copy of an operating system. They are popular for installing Linux distributions and useful for accessing data on systems that don't boot properly.
Questions tagged [livecd]
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How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?
What's the best way of placing a bootable ISO on a USB drive, such that the drive is bootable? ISOs such as a live Linux preview disk, Windows installation ISO, etc.
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What's the proper way to prepare chroot to recover a broken Linux installation?
This question relates to questions that are asked often. The procedure is frequently mentioned or linked to offsite, but is not often clearly and correctly stated. In an objective to concentrate useful information in one place, this question seeks…
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How can I keep multiple live/bootable ISO images on a single USB drive?
I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple live CD ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is relatively simple. It also must have some reasonable…
Keck
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Booting an Asus EeePC from a LiveCD USB stick
I have two identical Asus EeePC netbooks that are both installed with Ubuntu. One of them was sitting on the closet shelf and the battery went completely dead. When I charged the battery and tried to boot the it, I got the "No init found" error. In…
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How do you protect your computer from Live CD's?
Linux has grown in popularity in the past few years. Many more people are using Live CD's now than they were say 3 years ago. And with this comes a new problem for network admins. How do you stop a person from accessing certain file on the HDD that…
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CentOS Live CD vs Live DVD download
In this download page, I am presented with some options: http://mirrors.arpnetworks.com/CentOS/6/isos/i386/
What's the difference between Live CD vs Live DVD?
CentOS-6.3-i386-LiveCD.iso 690M
CentOS-6.3-i386-LiveDVD.iso 1.6G
Don't they just contain…
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How can I restore GRUB without a live CD?
I realize that this is a duplicate of a question asked before, but in that question the asker managed to find his live CD and no real answer appeared, thus I am re-asking it.
I managed to screw up my GRUB by deleting two linux partitions on my hard…
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Is there any only-terminal linux live usb distro?
I was looking for distro with not GUI that I could use in a live USB. The idea is that when I turn the computer on and choose to boot from the USB I could get only a terminal from which I could execute some programs and maybe access the hard drive…
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Access boot menu from Windows 8 PC
I have a computer that came with Windows 8 preinstalled. I want to boot from a CD, in this case Hiren's Boot CD. However Windows 8 doesn't seem to like this.
I have tried pressing F8, ESC, F12 and so on. I read online that Windows 8 can boot in…
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Linux Live CD for old computer
I have a pentium II (that's right, pentium II) with a scant 200MB of ram. This was a high-end workstation in it's day. The machine currently runs dos on a raid array, and I need to pull some data from it. I figure my best chance at this is to use…
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Fastest booting Linux distribution on a live-cd
I'm looking for a linux distro with the following:
Boots quickly, as fast as possible.
Has expected tools such as file browser, a web browser, etc.
Doesn't need to have extraneous recovery stuff such as partition editors, and what not.
These are…
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Mounting as loop device fails with "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, ..."
I tried
$ mount -o loop ./live-cd.iso /mnt
on a Live-OS image, which failed:
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
The image file is not corrupt.
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How do you create a bootable partition on a USB drive?
I have a bootable ISO designed to be burned to a double-layer DVD. I don't have a double layer DVD burner, so I would like to stick the ISO image on a 50 GB partition on a USB hard drive I have. How do I get the boot info onto the hard…
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Do you know linux live-cd with sshd enabled by default?
please advice a Linux live-CD which has an sshd server enabled by default. I want to use it as rescue and setup for headless servers.
It should get ip by dhcp or fallback to reasonable default ip if no dhcp server in the Lan.
SOLVED!
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Edit boot menu when booting from a live CD
My laptop has a nomodeset problem; check the link for more info. Basically, I would need to add nomodeset in grub in order to boot any linux distro.
If I want to use a distro, I'd need to install it, boot it, press e on boot menu, add nomodeset, and…
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