Learn how to create a Live USB from a CD. Transform your Linux CD into a portable, bootable USB drive. Take your operating system with you.
Here is one way to create a Live Bootable USB Linux Mint Flash Drive using the USB Startup Disk Creator. This is accomplished while running from a Live CD, but can also be done from a desktop installation. Linux Mint is a remix based on Ubuntu that sports a new look and integrated media codecs.
Easily Create an Ubuntu Bootable USB with Persistence: This tutorial guides you through creating an Ubuntu bootable USB with persistence using the Official Startup Disk Creator. This tool, made by the Ubuntu team, allows you to put Ubuntu on a USB flash drive, enabling you to save and restore changes across reboots using Ubuntu's Casper Persistent feature.
Make a USB NimbleX; The following covers the process of creating a NimbleX bootable USB flash drive by using the Live CD. Much like SLAX, this tiny Slackware based release is (less than 200MB). It was originally designed to fit on a 8cm CD. The steps using the cd method was originally put together and submitted by Georgescu Ciprian, and edited by Lance.
How to create an Xubuntu Live USB bootable flash drive while running from the Live CD. The following segment explains how to easily make a USB Xubuntu by using Ubuntu's Official Startup Disk Creator (USB Creator). Ubuntu's Casper Persistence option is additionally being used here. Enabling you to save and then restore your basic changes on subsequent boots.
How to Create a Kubuntu Live USB Flash Drive while running from the Live CD. In this guide, you'll learn how to use Ubuntu's Official Startup Disk Creator to put Kubuntu on a Flash Drive. We will also utilize Ubuntu's Casper Persistence feature, which allows you to save and restore changes at each subsequent boot. Kubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu featuring the KDE desktop environment instead of Gnome.
How to Create a DreamLinux Bootable USB Flash Drive using the Persistent Dream Installer while running from the Live CD. DreamLinux was a Brazilian remix based on Debian Linux. It was unfortunately discontinued October 2012. It featured many useful applications. Tools such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Inkscape, Gimp, Open Office, Pidgin, Evince, Gthumb, Xsane, Avant-Window-Navigator, Engage, Rhythmbox, SoundJuicer, SoundConverter, Totem Media Player, Avidemux, EasyTag, Brasero and more were included by default.
How to Create a Knoppix Bootable USB Flash Drive Using the Built-In Flash Installer. Knoppix Linux, created by Klaus Knopper, is a bootable Live Operating System renowned for its excellent automatic hardware detection capabilities. This makes it an excellent choice for system recovery, troubleshooting, or just trying out Linux without installing it to a hard drive.
The following tutorial covers the process of creating a PCLinuxOS MiniMe USB flash drive via the intuitive Make LiveUSB installer that is included with the Live CD. Although the script is not perfect, it does get most of the job done. However, there are some additional steps necessary to make your Portable PCLinuxOS MiniMe work properly.
Create a STUX Bootable USB flash drive using the Live CD. STUX is a Linux distribution based on a combination of Slackware Linux 11.0 for packages and Knoppix 5.0.1 for kernel, modules and scripts. Like many Linux distro's today, it includes automatic hardware detection, and supports a vast majority of graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. It also includes Apache and PHP for those who like to dabble with serving.
The following tutorial covers the process of creating a gOS 3 Gadgets Linux OS USB Flash Drive using the Live CD. In addition, the Ubuntu based casper persistence overlay option can being utilized for saving and then restoring some of your changes, automatically. Good OS is based on Ubuntu and features the Gnome desktop environment with Wbar. It features a dock and stack that looks and functions much like Mac OSX fan view. The Gadgets version also incorporates many useful Google Apps, open office, wine, skype and more.
Create a USB Bootable MoonOS LXDE USB Flash Drive using the Live CD. In the following tutorial, I will show you how to create your own Portable USB MoonOS LXDE Persistent Linux Operating System from the Live CD by using the USB Creator (created by the Ubuntu Team). MoonOS LXDE edition is a Linux Remix based on Ubuntu, but uses the LXDE desktop environment. The MoonOS project a Mix of Art and Operating System was designed and founded by Chanrithy Thim a Cambodian artist.
Create a MCNLive Flash Drive using the Live CD. MCNLive is a live CD based purely on Mandriva Linux. It was designed for use with most common desktop and notebook computers. Like Mandriva, this distro comes with almost every essential tool including networking utilities, internet tools, multimedia software, graphical tools and office applications.
How to make a MEPIS USB Key using the official "MEPIS System Assistant" to create the bootable USB Flash drive. This USB creation process is accomplished while running from the Live CD. SimplyMEPIS is based on a stable Debian Linux kernel. MEPIS Linux is a product founded by Warren Woodford.
