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 [live-usb]
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How do I partition a USB drive so that it's bootable and has a Windows-compatible data storage partition?
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I have a 16gb flash drive, which I want a live ISO to boot from (via unetbootin or something similar). It'll be some 32bit distro that I can plug-in and boot on whatever computer I need to. Since it will be a live ISO, I'll need…
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Why is an OS installed on a USB thumb drive so much slower than a live OS running off the same thumb drive?
Running Fedora 26 in a live environment almost feels like native speed to me, but when I install the OS to a thumb drive and boot into it, everything takes forever to startup. Once things start they're generally much faster but it's practically…
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UEFI + BIOS bootable live Debian stretch/buster/bullseye amd64 with persistence
All of the information I currently find on this matter is insufficient for my taste. It is either outdated, misleading or even wrong, seems overly complicated or not covering this specific question.
Goals:
bootable USB drive (both UEFI and legacy…
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How To create a FreeBSD 10 bootable USB?
Currently I am Using Linux Mint 17 and I want to dual boot FreeBSD and Linux Mint 17.
How can I create Bootable USB for FreeBSD 10? I tried Unetbootin, Image writer and powerISO but it's not working.
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Why do my identically prepared USB sticks differ in one byte?
I have two identical USB sticks (TrekStor 16GB) prepared as following with the c't bankix image.
Preparation using GParted:
Deleted the existing partition
Created a new DOS partition table
Formatted the stick with FAT32, primary partition
Loaded…
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forgot to luksClose usb persistent partition, is this a problem?
Following the Kali Linux documentation for "Adding USB Persistence with LUKS Encryption", I created a persistent partition and encrypted the volume with:
cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb2
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2…
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How to create a Debian live USB with persistence?
I would like to use Debian wherever I go by installing it on a USB flash drive, but I'm not sure how to make it save the settings and be able to install/update packages without loosing them on reboots.
So I downloaded a Hybrid ISO image from this…
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How to setup SSH access to Arch Linux Iso (livecd) booted computer?
How to setup/configure the Arch Linux bootcd (live-CD, ISO) so I can login to it using an SSH client?
And which password is by default set for the (automatic login) root account?
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Cloning a bootable USB stick to a different-sized stick
HARDWARE: 2 8GB USB flash drives
DISTRO: Mint 9 Xfce persistent Live Cd
One USB flash drive has two partitions:
1) FAT32 700MB Mint 9 partition
2) ext3 7.3GB casper-rw partition
GOAL:
I want to make a duplicate of that USB flash drive because I…
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Live USB: how to access USB drive that linux booted from
Can't find it in /media or /mnt.
What I want:
live distro so I have guarantee it won't break and will boot/work every single time
have access to directory on that USB drive for storage purposes, ie. use in typical pen drive fashion
What I don't…
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How do I configure syslinux to boot immediately
I'm tweaking a Debian live system (built with live-build), and I want it to boot straight into the system from syslinux — no menu, no timeout. According to the syslinux documentation, a timeout value of 0 means that the timeout is disabled, ie. it…
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How to manually install linux on a USB?
I have been using unetbootin to create bootable Linux USBs.
I want to do this manually using command line.
What is the procedure that unetbootin uses to prepare a bootable USB?
How would you go about manually converting an Ubuntu ISO to a USB?
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Booting linux from usb using EFI
I need to use a USB drive as an installation media for my Mint and Ubuntu.
For that I have unetbootin to make the usb bootable.
But my PC only supports EFI boot (while adding the boot device, I need to provide an .efi file path etc).
My question is…
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How to revert a `dnf install`?
I have installed liveusb-creator using DNF on Fedora 24. These are the dependencies that were installed along with it:
liveusb-creator.noarch 3.95.2-1.fc24
python-cssselect.noarch 0.9.1-9.fc24
python-lxml.x86_64 3.4.4-4.fc24
python-pyquery.noarch…
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Which format to use in USB BOOTABLE linux? NTFS or FAT32
While formatting USB for making it a BOOTABLE USB for installing LINUX. Which format will be better for my 8gb Pendrive. NTFS or FAT32?
Edit: Using LIVE LINUX USB creator
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