Making an installable linux on a flash drive

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adamjohnson

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I bet this question has been beat to death but maybe I'm not looking for the right question.

When I get a new distro of linux (say Debian 8) and burn the ISO to a CD/DVD I get a bootable, installable disk. This also is the same from things like SystemRescueCD -- which I use extensively.

But if I try to do the same with a flash drive, I get some menu system that Unetbootin installs, that is hit or miss useable. To this date I've yet to get a bootable flash drive that actually /works/ reliably from a flash drive. So I'm assuming that Unetbootin doesn't work, and I've not found any thing that works from linux.

So is there a way to make a flash-drive version like you get on a CD/DVD? Ultimately there won't be CD/DVDs so is there a solution that works?
 
I've not had a need to make a bootable USB flash drive, but have you tried using a tool like RUFUS?
 
Sounds like you just want a "live disk" with Mint or Ubuntu on a USB flash drive.
This is the only way I will install Linux on any computer. I never use CD's or DVD's anymore

If you are in Windows, use Universal USB installer

In Mint I just download the Linux ISO, right-click it and select "Make bootable USB"
 
booman said:
In Mint I just download the Linux ISO, right-click it and select "Make bootable USB"
Click to expand...

.....or you could just right-click and select "Make bootable USB". LOL. I'm so used to doing things the old way that sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. :rolling:
 
Yeah, that is new in Mint 17
I was using Windows to create Mint USB bootable flash drives because I didn't know how to do it in Linux.
Then I noticed that right-click menu and it works perfectly. Its actually easier than the Windows Universal USB installer.
 
You can also use the dd command, but it is a command that must be used with responsibility as mistyping could lead to completely wiping your hard drives (I'm not kidding). On the plus side it will create a bootable USB from a live iso image with a single command.

If you want to try out the dd method just ask and I can walk you through it.
 
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