Installing Linux using your USB drive

Last update on July 6, 2009 08:35 AM by jak58
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Installing Linux using your USB drive






UNetbootin


If it happens that you have to install linux on a machine and you don’t have any CD or DVD to make an image but you have your USB flash drive.
The minimum USB Drive required to install linux is 1 GB or more.

So you can install any Linux distribution and even Windows distribution using UNetbootin, this a small software will make your USB flash drive bootable for any installation.



UNetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

You will have to select the linux distribution you wish to install and browse the linux image on your pc then it will do the rest. Normally it will decompress the ISO image and will make your Drive Bootable!

Supported distributions:

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Linux Mint
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux
• Damn Small Linux
• SliTaz
• Puppy Linux
• FreeBSD
• NetBSD
• Fedora
• PCLinuxOS
• Gentoo
• Zenwalk
• Slax
• Dreamlinux
• Elive
• CentOS
• Mandriva
• FaunOS
• Frugalware Linux

Other features


Note that UNetbootin can also be used to load system utilities like:
  • Parted Magic
  • SystemRescueCD
  • Super Grub Disk
  • Dr.Web Antivirus, F-Secure Rescue CD
  • NTPasswd
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