<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You'll also need to make sure that the USB drive is the first in the order of bootable devices searched for in the BIOS.<div><br></div><div>I did this with CentOS a long time ago.<br><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DaveD</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">KC0WJN</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for all the fish.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"></span><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">==============================</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All spelling mistakes are the responsibilty of the reader (Rick Renz, STK, ca. 1994)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">==============================</span></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 22, 2024, at 16:35, Richard Goodwill <rick.goodwill@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.</span><br><span></span><br><span>All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.</span><br><span>You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...</span><br><span>For great justice.</span><br><span></span><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The process here seems straight forward. <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/" class="">https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">You’ll need the following items:</p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class="">A main USB drive (16GB or more), let’s call it the Main USB drive.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class="">Another USB drive (4GB or more) or a DVD disk to use as bootable Linux installation media.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class="">A Linux OS ISO file, such as Ubuntu 22.04.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class="">A PC with internal hard drives disconnected to prevent alterations to the boot record.</li></ul><div class="">Good luck,</div></div><div class="">-Rick</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 20, 2024, at 1:21 PM, Dave Serls <<a href="mailto:dave@dashs.denver.co.us" class="">dave@dashs.denver.co.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br class=""><br class="">All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br class="">You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br class="">For great justice.<br class=""><br class="">On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600<br class="">pt <<a href="mailto:mnemotronic@gmail.com" class="">mnemotronic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">From: pt <<a href="mailto:mnemotronic@gmail.com" class="">mnemotronic@gmail.com</a>><br class="">To: "Meatloaf (Serls) Meatloaf" <<a href="mailto:meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us" class="">meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us</a>><br class="">Subject: [Meatloaf] Am I looking for a "live" Linux distro?<br class="">Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600<br class="">Reply-To: "Meatloaf, it's whats for dinner."<br class=""><<a href="mailto:meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us" class="">meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us</a>> Sender: "Meatloaf"<br class=""><<a href="mailto:meatloaf-bounces@dashs.denver.co.us" class="">meatloaf-bounces@dashs.denver.co.us</a>><br class=""><br class="">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br class=""><br class="">All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br class="">You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br class="">For great justice.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I think I'm looking for something called a "live" distro that will<br class="">run off of a USB stick ... something that absolutely won't modify the<br class="">hard drives on the laptop I'm running it on. I'm trying to reacquaint<br class="">myself with Linux. I used Unix (PrimeOS) and Linux extensively in the<br class="">80s, 90s & early 2000s, but not since then. I'm familiar with command<br class="">line and use the Gnuwin32 tools a lot.<br class=""><br class="">I have a Windows 7 Pro laptop that, for the time being, must remain<br class="">Windows. I've got some USB sticks<br class=""><<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5K8E1A?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1" class="">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5K8E1A?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1</a>><br class="">.<br class=""><br class="">I'm considering Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Alpine and Kali.<br class=""><br class="">I've tried Ubuntu via Unetbootin and it got to a point where it<br class="">looked like it wanted to repartition my laptop drives. I bailed on<br class="">that.<br class=""><br class="">For setting up the USB stick I've downloaded Unetbootin, BalenaEtcher,<br class="">rawriteexe, Fedora Media Writer and ddrelease64. Etcher and<br class="">Unetbootin seem to be the least favored.<br class=""><br class="">Q. Do I only look for releases / distros say they're "live"?<br class=""><br class="">Q. Can any distro be convinced to run in "USB only / don't f*** with<br class="">my hard drive" mode?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks in advance.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""> Never used a live version of any distro, but most major distros<br class=""> should have a USB stick version that can be copied to a stick large<br class=""> enough. They should never ask for partitioning. <br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">************************************************************************<br class="">* Dave Serls Littleton, CO, USA *<br class="">* <a href="http://dashs.denver.co.us" class="">dashs.denver.co.us</a> <a href="http://www.dashs.com" class="">http://www.dashs.com</a> *<br class="">************************************************************************<br class="">-- <br class="">Meatloaf mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us" class="">Meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us</a><br class="">http://dashs.denver.co.us:7083/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo meatloaf<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><span>-- </span><br><span>Meatloaf mailing list</span><br><span>Meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us</span><br><span>http://dashs.denver.co.us:7083/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo meatloaf</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>