The following tutorial explains how we were able to Run Damn Small Linux in Windows using Qemu Emulation technology. Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a tiny Linux Operating System created by John Andrews that is based on a Knoppix 2.
Create a CrunchBang Linux Bootable USB drive using Windows. The following tutorial covers the process of installing CrunchBang to a USB flash drive from within Windows.
Creating a USB Bootable RUNT Linux; This walk through illustrates how to install, boot, and run RUNT Linux from a USB flash drive. RUNT is a super super tiny and very basic Linux distro.
Easily Boot Windows 11 from USB, fully contained inside a Virtual Hard Disk (VHDx) image file. The following process enables you to take a full installation of Windows with you on a removable external flash drive, and then run the Operating System portably at any computer that can boot from USB.
How to Install Grub2 on USB from Windows. The following covers the process of installing Grub2 on a USB Flash Drive from within Windows.
XBOOT is yet another neat little Multiboot ISO USB Creator for Windows. Similar to YUMI, this Windows based application can be used to create a Live Linux Multiboot Bootable USB.
This simple tutorial explains how to put OpenMandriva on a USB Flash Drive from within a running Windows environment by using YUMI. Upon completion, the resulting Bootable USB can be used to try out Open Mandriva Live on USB.
Create a Puppy Linux Live USB from Windows. In the following section I show you one way to install and run a Live Puppy Linux from a bootable USB flash drive using the Universal USB Installer (UUI).
System Rescue (formerly known as System Rescue CD) is a Linux based live system toolkit that is designed to provide a variety of tools for repairing and recovering computers. It is primarily used to troubleshoot and repair an unbootable or otherwise damaged computer systems after a system crash.
Make a USB bootable Linux Mint flash drive with persistence. Run Linux Mint from USB and also use it to Install Linux Mint from USB to a hard drive.
How to Create a Bootable USB Lubuntu flash thumb drive using Windows. Lubuntu Linux is essentially Ubuntu with an LXDE desktop environment.
Make a USB Kubuntu flash drive using Windows. Kubuntu is a fork of Ubuntu, offered by Canonical Ltd.
Create an Xubuntu Live Bootable USB flash drive with Windows. In the following section, I will show you a simple method to put Xubuntu on USB flash thumb drive using Windows and YUMI Multiboot USB Boot creation software.
Run Wolvix from a bootable USB flash drive: In the following section, I show you one way to quickly boot and run Wolvix Linux from a USB flash drive using YUMI. Wolvix is a Slackware based Linux distribution that was created by Kenneth 'Wolven' Granerud.
In the following section, I will show you how we installed Puppy Arcade to a USB Flash Drive using Windows. Puppy Arcade (created by Scott Jarvis), is a remix of Puppy Linux with a strong focus on Console Game Emulation.
Run Ubuntu Server from USB; Easily create a Live USB Bootable Ubuntu Server using YUMI from within Windows. The following process covers one way to Install, Boot and Run Ubuntu Server from a USB Flash Drive.
How to Install Gentoo on USB. The following how to tutorial explains one way to create a Gentoo Live USB bootable flash thumb drive using Windows, a Gentoo Live DVD, and the Universal USB Installer tool.
Use the Linux persistent USB file creator to make a casper rw persistent file or writable persistence loop file for Ubuntu based distributions. Written for use from within Windows, this tool enables you to quickly create a loopback filesystem image to use for saving and restoring Ubuntu changes while booted from a live USB.
Create a USB Recovery Is Possible (RIP) Linux bootable flash drive using YUMI from within Windows. RIP Linux is a Slackware based distribution created by Kent Robotti.
How to Install SliTaz to a USB flash drive using Windows. This Tiny Linux distribution is a very fast running free operating system that can be run entirely from system memory.
How to Install EasyPeasy to USB flash drive using Windows and the Universal USB Installer. Easy Peasy is a remix for Netbooks that is based on Ubuntu.
Linux Live USB Creator (aka LiLi) is another nice tool you can use to install various Linux compilations, versions and distributions to a USB flash drive. The end result is a Bootable Live USB (with persistence as well in some cases).
How to make a SLAX Bootable USB. In the following tutorial we show you how easy it is to create a SLAX Linux bootable USB flash drive from within Windows or Linux with WINE.
Install Eeebuntu on USB; Persistent Eeebuntu bootable Flash Drive creation tutorial. In the following tutorial, we show you how to use Windows to create a Portable Eeebuntu bootable USB Flash Drive using UUI.
Sharing Files Between Ubuntu and Windows. In the following tutorial, I cover how to modify the casper script to allow you to mount your USB Flash Drive with read/write access.
The following tutorial covers the process of installing MooLux Linux Live to a USB flash drive using Windows. It is a Live USB Linux distribution based on Slackware that utilizes the KDE desktop environment.
Create a xPUD Persistent USB Flash Drive from Windows. xPUD is an intuitive minimal Linux Operating system.
Persistent Linux - What is it? After looking through some of the tutorials offered on Pen Drive Linux, you may be wondering what Persistent Linux means.
Portable Ubuntu Remix for Windows (Pubuntu) is a project headed by Claudio Cacsar Sa¡nchez Tejeda. It uses CoLinux (Cooperative Linux) to enable a user to run Ubuntu on top of Windows.
The following tutorial explains how to create a larger casper-rw loop file (or writable file) for your Ubuntu based flash drive install. For example on: Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Crunchbang or Linux Mint.
UNetbootin can be used to quickly create a Live Linux USB flash drive from an ISO file. There are versions of this cross-platform Live USB generation utility for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.
Bootable USB Ophcrack flash drive creation; Ophcrack is a free Windows password recovery tool that uses rainbow tables to retrieve Windows login passwords from password hashes. The tool is also made available in multiple versions.
Create a Fedora Live USB. The following tutorial covers how to create and boot Fedora from a flash drive using Windows and the Fedora Media Writer.
The following tutorial explains how to create a bootable gOS USB flash drive using Windows and the popular Universal USB Installer. gOS is a Debian derivative based on Ubuntu.
How to Effortlessly Make a USB Bootable KALI Linux flash drive with persistence using YUMI from within Windows. KALI is based on Debian Linux.
Accessing Linux files from Windows (Linux Windows file sharing). How do I read Linux files from Windows or access files from Linux on Windows?
Create a Bootable USB Ophcrack from Windows. Ophcrack is an open source Windows password recovery utility that uses rainbow tables to find passwords.
Run ISO from Windows without rebooting. The following tutorial explains how to use VirtualBox to run Linux or any other bootable ISO from a portable USB flash device or elsewhere while still working within a running Windows.
Directory Structure in Linux: Once you have migrated from Windows to Linux you may notice that the filesystem is not what you are accustomed to. Of the first things a new Linux user needs to understand is the inner workings of the file system hierarchy in Linux.
USB Damn Small Linux (DSL)? This is a revisit of the Windows DSL USB installation tutorial: "Putting Damn Small Linux on a USB".
The following walk-through illustrates how to install, boot, and run Feather Linux from a USB flash drive using the Universal USB Installer. Feather is yet another very small (under 128MB) clean and simple
Can you boot from an exFAT USB? Absolutely, but not by using one partition for USB booting.
Convert a VDI or VHD Virtual Machine into a bootable USB drive. Directly boot from VHD or VDI files; Turning VirtualBox "VHD" (Virtual Hard Disk) Images or "VDI" (Virtual Disk) Images into a bootable physical disk.
Win32 Disk Imager can be used to write Image ISO to USB drives, burn an IMG to USB, create backups, duplicate or clone a USB flash drive and more. This free disk imaging and cloning tool used to write raw disk images to a USB drive from Windows.
Etcher: Ever wondered How to Burn an ISO to Bootable USB? How about Clone a USB Drive?
Ventoy is another excellent Multiboot USB boot maker software tool that can be used to copy, boot and run multiple ISO files from USB. Functionality is intuitive and relatively straight forward.
Creating a Bootable USB flash drive to Boot DOS from USB can be complicated. However, a tool called Rufus or (Reliable USB Format Utility) created by Pete Batard, can make this task relatively simple.
LiveUSB Install is another neat little third party Live Linux Bootable USB Creation tool. You can use it to easily put a Live Linux distribution of your choice on your flash drive.
YUMI (Your USB Multiboot Installer) is a multiboot USB boot maker. A USB Windows media creation tool or software that can be used to make a multisystem bootable flash drive.
SARDU (Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) is another Windows and Linux based multiboot USB Creator. The utility can also be used to create a multiboot CD or DVD.
Boot Multiple ISO from USB using GRUB2 from Linux. Here is one way to manually create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive (Multiboot ISOs) from a running Linux environment.
How to create a Bitdefender Rescue USB flash drive. Bitdefender Rescue CD is a free bootable Antivirus scanner that is based on Knoppix Linux and Gentoo Linux core Operating System.
Make a GParted Live USB flash drive using YUMI to perform the task. Easily Create a GParted Live USB from Windows.
Install Ubuntu NetBook Remix to USB using Windows. Ubuntu NetBook Remix (UNR) is a netbook oriented Linux distribution created by Canonical Ltd.
Boot from USB Ubuntu: Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB with Persistence. The following segment covers how to use YUMI as an Ubuntu bootable USB creator from within Windows or in Linux via WINE.
Create a Casper-RW Larger than 4GB; The following tutorial will show you one way to create a writable Casper partition on your USB flash drive. The benefit of using a casper-rw partition as opposed to a casper-rw block file is that you can expand your persistent storage beyond 4GB.
The Universal USB Installer (Imager), also known as UUI, is bootable pendrive software. This ISO to USB utility allows you to easily create a bootable USB from ISO files, enabling you to boot from USB into Windows, Linux, and system tools.
Create a DBAN bootable USB using the YUMI Multiboot tool. Easily run DBAN from a USB flash drive using Windows or WINE from within Linux.
Install Ubuntu Rescue Remix to USB; How to Create a Ubuntu Rescue Remix Bootable USB Flash Drive from within Windows. The following tutorial covers one method of installing and running (URR) Ubuntu Rescue Remix to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC and the Universal USB Installer to do the Boot creation.
How to Boot a USB flash drive in VirtualBox. In this segment you will learn how to successfully boot a portable operating system from a USB flash drive or removable external hard drive while still running from within a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X environment using vbox.
Can you boot VirtualBox from USB? Yes, Portable VirtualBox was an unofficial portable wrapper for Virtual Box (vbox), created by Micha.
How to Install WINE on Ubuntu. This compatibility layer allows Linux users to run Windows executables .
How to make a bootable KNOPPIX USB flash drive using the Universal USB Installer. KNOPPIX is another popular free and Open Source Live Linux distribution.
How to make Clonezilla USB bootable flash drive from Windows. Clonezilla software is a free partition or disk clone tool that works similar to Norton Ghost and Partition Image.
Create a Bootable Simply MEPIS USB by using the Universal USB Installer while running from Windows or Linux. MEPIS Linux was first founded by Warren Woodford in November 2002.
How to resize casper-rw partition images. TopoResize is a Free Image resizing tool originally written by Chris Semler.
How to create a bootable USB Debian Live flash drive from Windows by using Etcher by Balena or the DD command. The following tutorial covers the process of installing Debian to a USB drive from within Windows or Linux.
Make a USB bootable Sugar on a Stick flash drive; Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a compressed version of Fedora Linux. It was created specifically for children as an alternative to the office style desktop.
In the following tutorial, I cover how to create a Parted Magic bootable USB flash drive from within Windows.
CentOS USB Installation; The following tutorial covers the process of creating a CentOS bootable USB flash drive using Windows and the LiveUSB Creator. Once installed, the CentOS Live USB will operate just like the Live CD, and you should be able to install CentOS from USB to a hard drive as well.
The following covers one way to make a MCNLive bootable USB flash pen drive in just a few steps from within Windows. By using this method, you don't need to burn the ISO to a CD and then run the USB installer from Linux.
Ubuntu Remote Desktop screen sharing with Windows and Linux. The following tutorial covers the process of remotely accessing and controlling an Ubuntu desktop screen from another Linux or Windows computer.
One of the drawbacks to installing NVIDIA Proprietary drivers in Linux is that when the kernel is updated, you have to reinstall (recompile) the software to match the new kernel. This tutorial explains how to upgrade Proprietary NVIDIA video card drivers after your Debian Lenny Linux system has been upgraded to a new kernel version.
Installing Compiz in Debian is a relatively simple process. It can be used to enhance the visual experience and usability of the Linux desktop environment.
Easily create an Ultimate Boot CD bootable USB flash drive from Windows using YUMI. Ultimate Boot CD, also known as UBCD is an awesome popular computer diagnostics tool.
