Q. I don't want to install Linux on my computer's hard disk, but i'd like to use it from my pen drive (USB / Flash drive) just like Live Cd's are used?
Any good enough version / distribution will do.
Any good enough version / distribution will do.
A. http://pendrivelinux.com/
They have a Mandriva customized version for pen drives that you can install on a pen drive from within windows by double clicking a batch file. It also has some How-Tos on making a bootable pen drive from Live CD.
They have a Mandriva customized version for pen drives that you can install on a pen drive from within windows by double clicking a batch file. It also has some How-Tos on making a bootable pen drive from Live CD.
how do i make a "Live USB flash drive" for linux?
Q. i looked a wikipedia *derp*, and saw them mention a "live usb flash drive" for o.s., can i do it with linux on a 256MB (244actual)flash drive? if not what o.s. can i try that supports flash player 10?
A. 256 is really small, but there may be a few small distributions that will fit. Generally, you want a USB stick that is larger than the ISO you are going to use. There is a free utility called Unetbootin that will make most any ISO into a bootable USB stick.
No HDD detected when boot from linux mint live usb?
Q. Ok so i had fedora 13 installed on my net-book and tried to upgrade to fedora 14 but it failed and would not boot so i created a Linux mint live usb and tried to install but when i go into gparted it doesn't detect my hard drive :( if anyone could help it would be much appreciated
even when i try clean install it does not detect hdd + its a new hdd
even when i try clean install it does not detect hdd + its a new hdd
A. The hard drive is probably in fat32 format, you need to reformat it to ntfs. this should be an option when installing mint, without using gparted, just a full hard drive wipe and clean install with ntfs formatting.
EDIT: But the same hdd worked for fedora 13? It should be already in ntfs if that is the case.
Go into your bios and see if there are any options for your hard drive, such as wiping it, or reformatting it or something.
If that doesnt work I would try to put another distro on the usb, maybe something small like crunchbang, and just try to install that, and see if it reads your hdd. or maybe try putting mint on a cd or dvd and installing that way? I dont know why that would be any different, but sometimes the simplest things work.
EDIT: But the same hdd worked for fedora 13? It should be already in ntfs if that is the case.
Go into your bios and see if there are any options for your hard drive, such as wiping it, or reformatting it or something.
If that doesnt work I would try to put another distro on the usb, maybe something small like crunchbang, and just try to install that, and see if it reads your hdd. or maybe try putting mint on a cd or dvd and installing that way? I dont know why that would be any different, but sometimes the simplest things work.
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