Now Creation of LiveUSB installation be completed, Reboot the computer and boot from SUB Drive. Īdd persistent configuration file by using following command.
Once you have agreed to the License Agreement, you select a Linux Distribution (the one you downloaded), the actual ISO image on your hard drive, and the USB Flash Drive letter in the interface.
It is a portable program that you can execute without installation. Step 2: Downloading the Ubuntu OS and the USB Installer. Start the Universal USB Installer program on your computer. A USB flash drive, at least 4GB in capacity.
To do this, click on ISO/IMG/ZIP and browse to locate the Ubuntu ISO file you downloaded: LinuxLive USB Creator: Step 2 Choose a source. How to Install a Linux OS in Your USB Flash Drive and Turn It Into a Portable App Suite Step 1: What We Will Need. In the second box, select the source of the boot file. If the GParted tool does not exist in your system then install it by using the given method:Īfter completing the installation of GParted. LinuxLive USB Creator: Step 1 Choose your key. In this process, Linux System will be used so make sure the tool GParted is installed. Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: doneĪt the time of creating a persistent USB drive, size does matter! The larger size of the USB drive, the better, also depending on the Linux version. Press “w” and hit enter for writing changes into hard diskĬreated a new partition 3 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 11.7 GiB.I have create Bootable Pen drive so It is my targeted device to make Kali Linux Live useb persistece. In the above image you can see one hard disk and 1 Flash drive is connected in my system. Worng selection will give you high shock. The sticks are cheap enough anyway so it’s not a big deal.STEP 1: First step to have eyes on attached disk and partitions in your system. Sure, you can simply reconfigure everything and get it working again relatively quickly for anything messed up, but that’s a bit of a hassle.įor each computer you want to boot a full-install-on-USB-stick distro from, it’s recommended you get a separate USB stick dedicated to each computer.
For example the bellow command will mount USB driver with NTFS file system: /dev/sdc1 /media/usb-drive ntfs defaults 0 0. For any other file system type simply set correct type.
If you take the USB stick after a full install and boot, then bring it to another computer with different hardware and boot from that, chances are high that the internal settings of the OS on that stick will get all messed up because it’s "expecting" a different the computer it was first booted from. In order to mount your USB in Linux permanently after reboot add the following line into your /etc/fstab config file: /dev/sdc1 /media/usb-drive vfat defaults 0 0. (If not, try restarting the computer or disabling fast booting in BIOS). We should see the Linux distro installer appear. After making this change, save the BIOS changes and let the computer boot. What this means is that the OS will set itself to use the computer it is first booted from and configure itself as such. Once in the BIOS menu, navigate to Boot and set the USB drive with Linux as the first boot option.
You should bear in mind that by installing a Linux OS on a USB fashion it will not be portable. When done you log out of Linux, shut down, power off, unplug the stick and reboot again to go back to the internal hard drive’s OS.
If all goes well, whenever the USB stick is plugged into the computer and booted from a "cold start", it will always boot from the USB stick first whenever you want to go into Linux.