How to Make Linux Boot from a USB Flash Drive using Windows
How to Make an exFAT Bootable USB flash drive. First we will format the USB with multiple partitions. Install Grub2, and then boot. This method works for both Legacy BIOS and EFI booting. UEFI boot requires the creation of a Fat/Fat32 partition, which is covered in this segment.
How to Install Grub2 on USB from Windows. The following covers the process of installing Grub2 on a USB Flash Drive from within Windows. We will be using the grub-install.exe that ships with the grub-for-windows zip file. Upon completion of these bootloader instructions, your USB flash drive should be Grub2 bootable from UEFI or BIOS …
Create an Ubuntu Live USB Flash Drive from within Windows. In the following tutorial, we show you an easy way to put Ubuntu on a USB Flash Drive using Windows. Once finished, you should be able to successfully run Ubuntu directly from your Flash Drive just as you could from a Live CD. Here we …
Create a xPUD Persistent USB Flash Drive from Windows. xPUD is an intuitive minimal Linux Operating system. It was created by Penk and functions like a Kiosk. xPUD ships with the Firefox Browser, Gnome Media Player, Transmission Bit torrent Client, Geany Text Editor, Gpicview Picture Viewer, EPDFView and Xterm Terminal Emulator. More apps can be …
USB Damn Small Linux (DSL)? This is a revisit of the Windows DSL USB installation tutorial: “Putting damn small linux on a USB pendrive”. Damn Small Linux was created by John Andrews, and is basically a trimmed down version of an early Knoppix build, making it perfect for smaller drives. Based on the 2.4 kernel, …
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In the following tutorial, I will show you how we created a USB Parted Magic Flash Drive from within Windows. Parted Magic, created by Patrick Verner, is a fully functional operating system that also offers core programs pulled from GParted and Parted that enable a user to easily perform partitioning tasks. Other useful programs offered …
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How to Install Knoppix to a USB Flash Drive using Windows and YUMI. Knoppix Linux is another awesome Free and Open Source Live Linux compilation. It was created by Klaus Knopper. Aside from the basic software essentials, it also packs several unique features. Such as a screen reader for the blind. Automatic hardware detection. And …
How to easily install and then run DBAN from a flash drive. In the following tutorial, we show you how we created a DBAN bootable USB flash drive from Windows using YUMI. Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a simple bootable data destruction tool created by Darik Horn. It can be used to securely wipe …
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. It includes some of the most popular Console Game Emulation software available for Linux. Of …
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Run GParted from a USB Flash Drive using Windows to complete the task. GParted is a popular graphical partition editor headed by Curtis Gedak. This powerful tool that can be used to create, reorganize, and or delete disk partitions. Other Key features include the ability to create multiple partitions, enable or disable the boot flag, …
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PCLinuxOS is a clean, compact and beautiful Live Linux CD compilation created and headed by Texstar. PCLOS was originally based on Mandriva Linux and could comfortably fit on just about any flash drive. Back in the day, the MiniMe version was one of my favorite Live Linux distributions, taking up less than 512MB of space. …
Put Lucid Puppy on a USB Flash Drive in Windows. In the following section I will show you one way to put Lucid Puppy “Lupu” on a USB Flash Drive from within Windows by using YUMI. Lucid Puppy, coordinated by Barry Kauler is made from a combination of Woof and Canonical’s Ubuntu Lucid Lynx release. …
Create an Xubuntu Live USB Flash Drive with Windows: In the following tutorial, we show you a simple method to put Xubuntu on a Flash Drive using Windows and the YUMI USB Boot creation software. Xubuntu, a product of Canonical Ltd, is essentially a fork of Ubuntu that utilizes the XFCE desktop environment instead of …
Put Kubuntu on a USB Flash Drive using Windows: Kubuntu is a fork of Ubuntu, offered by Canonical Ltd. It utilizes a KDE desktop environment. KDE is often preferred over Gnome for its visual appearance and Windows familiar functionality. Once finished, your Flash Drive will act as a Live Bootable USB, that could be used …
How to put Lubuntu on a Flash Drive using Windows: Lubuntu is essentially Ubuntu with an LXDE desktop environment. LXDE is a lightweight X11 desktop environment that is optimal for netbooks and older or slower computers because requires less Processing Power and RAM. In the following, I’ll show you how to install Lubuntu to a …
How To Create a USB Bootable Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) Flash Drive from Windows using YUMI. Ultimate Boot CD is an awesome popular PC diagnostics tool. It condenses over 100 useful PC diagnostics and hardware troubleshooting software utilities into a single ISO. Included are popular utilities such as BIOS and CPU Tools, Memory Testers, Data …
Create a USB Bootable Sugar on a Stick Flash Drive; Sugar on a Stick by sugarlabs.org is a compressed version of Fedora. It was created specifically for children as an alternative to the office style desktop. It is essentially a learning platform that promotes collaborative learning through activities that encourage critical thinking. Sugar is used …
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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. It is recommended for intermediate to advanced users who prefer to do work without using a graphical interface like X. Beware …
Create a USB Bootable RIP Linux Flash Drive using YUMI from within Windows. RIP Linux (Recovery Is Possible) is a Salckware based distribution created by Kent Robotti. It can be used for system recovery and maintenance. This Linux Operating System ships packed full of useful tools such as TestDisk (recover deleted partitions), GParted, fdisk, cfdisk, …
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 Knoppix Linux remix (based on Debian). This simple Linux distribution is relatively straight forward and super easy to use.
Creating a Live USB Bootable Ubuntu Server Edition using YUMI from Windows. The following process covers one way to Install, Boot and Run Ubuntu Server Edition from a Flash Drive. Upon completion, you can then use the portable version to Run Ubuntu Server Edition Live or install to an internal Hard Drive. This is very …
This simple tutorial explains how to put Mandriva on a USB Flash Drive from within a running Windows environment by using YUMI. Once the Mandriva ISO is installed, the resulting Bootable USB Flash Drive can be used to try out OpenMandriva Live on USB, and or to install OpenMandriva from the Flash Drive to your …
How to Make a USB Bootable KALI Linux Flash Drive using YUMI from within Windows. Backtrack was a Live Linux distribution that was originally based on SLAX. It was designed to be a distribution focused purely on penetration testing. As a result, it comes prepackaged with security tools including network analyzers, password crackers, wireless tools …
Put System Rescue CD on a USB Flash Drive using Windows. System Rescue CD is a Gentoo based Linux System Rescue Disk. More specifically it can be used for repairing a computer or recovering data after a crash. The distribution includes popular utilites such as GNU Parted, GParted, Partimage, ddrescue, FSArchiver, File system tools, NTFS-3g, …
Run Linux Mint from a Flash Drive. In the following tutorial, we cover one way to use YUMI to create your own Portable version of this distribution from within Windows. Headed by Clement Lefebvre, this distribution is based upon Ubuntu or Debian (depending on the version). Key features include a new software manager, new backup …
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. Upon completion, the distribution can then be booted and run …
How to create a SimplyMEPIS 8 USB Flash Drive using our Universal USB Installer while running from Windows. MEPIS Linux was founded by Warren Woodford in November 2002. Warren didn’t like how current Linux desktops worked, so he decided to create his own. The first version was released to the public in May 2003. The …
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Run Wolvix from a USB Flash Drive: In the following section, I will show you one way to quickly install Wolvix to a USB Flash Drive from Windows using our Universal USB Installer. Wolvix is a Linux distribution created by Kenneth ‘Wolven’ Granerud. It is based on Slackware and the Linux Live scripts from (SLAX). …
The following tutorial covers the process of creating a CentOS 5 USB flash drive using Windows and the LiveUSB Creator. Once CentOS is installed, it will operate just like the CentOS live cd. A persistence feature is not being utilized in this tutorial so you will NOT be able to save and restore your changes …
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Ophcrack is an open source Windows password recovery utility that uses rainbow tables to find passwords. It can be run from Windows, Linux or Live CD. The following tutorial explains how to install and boot Ophcrack from a portable USB device. Since the Live CD version (running from a SLAX now SliTaz core) is already …
