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

[Dave Eldenburg]

Go out to:
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install?cp=close#1-getting-started

That page tells you how to install the ubuntu .iso file to either a dvd or
a thumb drive.  You can then try ubuntu before installing it.  You can also
install ubuntu along side windows and dual boot into it.

Dave


On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 2:35 PM Richard Goodwill <rick.goodwill at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 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/
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600
> pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> Reply-To: "Meatloaf, it's whats for dinner."
> <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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