[Meatloaf] Am I looking for a "live" Linux distro?

[Richard Goodwill]

I have not been able locate a USB preinstalled image.    Everything I find is do-it-urself with Rufus or something.     I’ve heard of Rufus but never tried it myself.  

The process here seems straight forward.   https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/ <https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/>

The trick here is to have 2 USB drives available.   This allows you to boot the installer and then install onto a 4GB USB drive.


You’ll need the following items:

A main USB drive (16GB or more), let’s call it the Main USB drive.
Another USB drive (4GB or more) or a DVD disk to use as bootable Linux installation media.
A Linux OS ISO file, such as Ubuntu 22.04.
A PC with internal hard drives disconnected to prevent alterations to the boot record.
Good luck,
-Rick





> On Oct 20, 2024, at 1:21 PM, Dave Serls <dave at dashs.denver.co.us> wrote:
> 
> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600
> pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com>
>> To: "Meatloaf (Serls) Meatloaf" <meatloaf at dashs.denver.co.us>
>> Subject: [Meatloaf] Am I looking for a "live" Linux distro?
>> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600
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>> <meatloaf at dashs.denver.co.us> Sender: "Meatloaf"
>> <meatloaf-bounces at dashs.denver.co.us>
>> 
>> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>> 
>> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
>> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
>> For great justice.
>> 
>> 
>> I think I'm looking for something called a "live" distro that will
>> run off of a USB stick ... something that absolutely won't modify the
>> hard drives on the laptop I'm running it on. I'm trying to reacquaint
>> myself with Linux. I used Unix (PrimeOS) and Linux extensively in the
>> 80s, 90s & early 2000s, but not since then. I'm familiar with command
>> line and use the Gnuwin32 tools a lot.
>> 
>> I have a Windows 7 Pro laptop that, for the time being, must remain
>> Windows. I've got some USB sticks
>> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5K8E1A?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1>
>> .
>> 
>> I'm considering Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Alpine and Kali.
>> 
>> I've tried Ubuntu via Unetbootin and it got to a point where it
>> looked like it wanted to repartition my laptop drives. I bailed on
>> that.
>> 
>> For setting up the USB stick I've downloaded Unetbootin, BalenaEtcher,
>> rawriteexe, Fedora Media Writer and ddrelease64. Etcher and
>> Unetbootin seem to be the least favored.
>> 
>> Q. Do I only look for releases / distros say they're "live"?
>> 
>> Q. Can any distro be convinced to run in "USB only / don't f*** with
>> my hard drive" mode?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
> 
>    Never used a live version of any distro, but most major distros
>    should have a USB stick version that can be copied to a stick large
>    enough. They should never ask for partitioning. 
> 
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