Feather Linux on USB Pendrive

The following walkthrough will illustrate how to install Feather Linux to a USB flash pen drive through Windows and make Feather boot from the USB device. Feather is yet another very small (under 128MB) clean and simple Knoppix Linux remix (based on Debian) that is straight forward and easy to use. The following tutorial covers the process of installing Feather to a USB device using Windows to produce the USB version.

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USB Feather Linux Prerequisites:

• 128MB or larger USB pen drive
• Feather Linux
• HP USB tool (for formatting the stick)
• Syslinux

The Feather USB Installation Process:

1. Download the HP USB tool and format your stick with the tool using a FAT file system.
2. Download the Feather Linux zip file.
3. Extract the files from feather-0.7.4-usb.zip to your USB stick.
4. Download and extract syslinux.zip to a directory on your computer.
5. Run the command prompt in windows (start/run/cmd) and CD to the syslinux directory. Once there simply type syslinux.exe F: (F: being the example drive letter of the USB stick in this system)
6. Reboot your PC, go into your system BIOS and set your boot order to boot from any selectable USB device. (example USB_ZIP or USB_HDD)
7. Save your BIOS settings. On the next reboot, you should have a sucessful launch of Feather Linux from USB

Notes: If your system cannot boot from a USB device, you can use a floppy disk to boot Feather. Simply download the USB Boot Floppy Disk image and copy the image to your floppy disk.

                            

Posted March 25th, 2006 at 4:17 pm under: Flashdrive installs using Windows, OLD Windows based tutorials

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