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).
Questions tagged [liveusb]
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How to create VHD disk image from a Linux live system?
Once more, I have to resort at the experts here at SuperUser, as my other sources (mainly Google ;-)) didn't prove very helpful...
So basically, I would like to create a VHD image of a physical disk to be archived/accessed/maybe even mounted in a…
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Should I format USB sticks and SD cards to FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS? (Windows files, live Linux distributions)
Does it depend on the media size which one to chose or on some other parameters? On Windows 7, FAT16 is the default. In pendrivelinux.com's Universal USB Installer, FAT32. Which one should I chose? How about NTFS for Windows use?
How about exFAT? It…
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How to install FreeDOS onto a USB flash drive?
The FreeDOS project offers a number of downloads, but all of these contain an installer that tries to install FreeDOS from an installation media onto the hard disk.
Selecting the USB flash drive as installation target is not supported. Since USB…
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Cannot reformat bootable usb drive on windows
So I made this linux live usb and I'm having trooble returning it to being a regular storage drive.
I'm using windows 7, by using compmgmt.msc I can see the drive but I can't format it.
usually when right clicking you can format but here I can only…
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How can I clone my entire OS to a bootable USB stick?
I'm running Ubuntu and using about 45GB of HD space.
I also have a 64GB USB stick. I know how to make a bootable / live USB stick. What I want to do is export my Ubuntu OS in its current state (installed programs, config files, media, etc) to the…
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Can I export bootable USB disks to ISO images?
I have several bootable USB flash drives lying around - some of them have Linux distros on them and others are Windows recovery drives. The thing is that the number of flash drives for these purposes is getting out of hand.
Especially with Windows,…
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Multiboot on usb with syslinux
I'm trying to make a multiboot usb with Ubuntu, Backtrack and Mantra-OS on it (all ubuntu as you can see). Those are the steps I've done:
sudo su
unmount /dev/sdb1 # unmount the drive
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n disqus /dev/sdb1 …
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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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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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Getting Rufus to output to a disk image file
Basically, I require different Live USBs for different needs. I have a single USB drive & when I need to switch to another distro/OS, I simply flash this USB drive with the right boot attributes, using Rufus.
I thought that since I keep on setting…
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How to access both partitions on a bootable USB flash drive in Windows
I have a 16GB USB Flash Drive that is partitioned into two different sizes. The first partition contains a bootable version of Ubuntu, the second partition is for general saving of files.
Windows will only recognise the first partition. I have…
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What is the difference between "Rufus" and "Rufus portable"
On this site : https://rufus.akeo.ie/, there are two downloads, one labeled "Rufus 2.8" and the other labeled "Rufus 2.8 portable" I have tried both, and they do not differ in functionality as far as I am aware. I don't know what the difference…
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What are the differences bewteen using ISOs vs extracting distributions in multiboot LiveUSBs?
I've created a multiboot pendrive with a couple of Linux distributions by using the YUMI tool from pendrivelinux, and by default it extracts the content of the chosen operating system's ISO on a dedicated folder in the destination pendrive; it can…
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Linux: locking root filesystem to read-only
I have an industrial computer (read: no keyboard/mouse/monitor except during maintenance) which will control some machinery. The operating system will be Linux (I would prefer OpenSuSE, but it's not a strict requirement). The software doesn't need…
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Arch Linux install while on a network that requires browser-based login
I need to be able to log in to my dorm's internet connection using a web browser. Without doing so, I have no internet connection, and can therefore not install Arch Linux or any packages or what have you.
I have the exact same issue on both a…
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