Tuesday, July 17, 2018

USB Booting Linux

USB Booting Linux
It is sad, there are only few utilities available for booting Linux from a USB stick or Flash Drive.
1. Number one is MultiSystem DVD that comes in both 32 bit and 64 bits.
It has many utilities including Gparted.
It can boot many Linux distributions except Debian and few of the new Puppy Linux derivatives.
It is from France but it gives multiple language support now. 
It can be booted to a USB or Portable hard disk.
Only downside is, there is no root or user passwords.
If you lose the stick anybody can look at your private data.
I give Priority to Privacy Now which is violated by CIA and MI16/15.

2. UnetBootIn
Please follow the instructions given in Pendrive Linux site.
Both Debian and Peppermint Linux do not support, UnetBootIn.
I am not sure Ubuntu supports it.

I have given up testing Ubuntu after Unity Desktop, which they have given up, has gone back to Gnome, according to Linux Magazine.

3. USB Boot-In Utility
In Peppermint Linux there is a Utility that lets you installs a single Linux distribution in a USB Flash 
Drive.
I forgot two others with plenty of Utilities.
They are

4. Puppy Linux

5. Knoppix

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