Sunday, December 7, 2008

Installing an Operating System on a USB drive

I'm sure that you would have, at one time or another, felt the need for a portable Operating System that you could carry around with you and to help troubleshoot and backup your friends' crashed PCs. There are several Live CD based Linux distributions[distros] where you just slide a CD in, boot from it and enjoy the new OS. But what if you need your Data and settings to be remembered[also called persistence]. A good alternative is to use a Live USB based OS. So here's a small guide for getting a small OS up and running on a USB flash drive.

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