How to Make a Bootable Flash Drive using ISObooter. This article was originally about using GRUB2 to boot various Linuxes directly out of their ISO files. It was a way to test distros without having to burn their CDs. However, it only worked with Ubuntu and its variants. It didn't work at all with Puppy. The new ISObooter project removes this limitation. It can boot most Linuxes and all recent Puppies. Update: See Page 12 for a better way to keep your save file/folder on the flash drive. Update: Page 10 has instructions for creating a combo setup where you boot off the flash drive but keep your main Puppy files on the hard drive. Update: See Page 9 for a way to create ISObooter flash drives from Windows. ISObooter is a procedure for booting many Linuxes, including Puppy, directly from their ISO files. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Hint: After putting an ISO on the drive, open a terminal window and type: sync. 8. 9.
Hint: If you answer "y" or "n", the ISO files are processed individually. 10. 11. 12. 13. 1. 2. 3. 4. Mkusb. The mkusb tool was developed to make it simpler and safer to create boot drives with the method to flash or clone an iso image or a compressed image file. It is using dd under the hood.The target is a mass storage device, often but not always a USB drive, sometimes an internal drive or an eSATA drive. Installation is from PPA, so it is for Dog-based OS : To clone an iso file on USB flash drive with mkusb, the iso file must be an isohybrid. add-apt-repository must be enabled, and add this line : add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa refresh with apt update and apt install mkusb mkusb-nox usb-pack-efi usb-pack-efi is optional and used to have persistence.
Using a fresh install, you can use RemasterCow to make a sfs file, and use it later, as needed. Used on Mintpup without problem. To restore USB flash drive original state : mkusb restore. How to install multiple distros on a flashdrive? I have recently had a stroke and am in a Nursing home using their borrowed laptop. I have "Lucid_528" installed on my only (32GB) media storage device. I have no CD/DVD...etc, nor any funds as I am waiting for approval for SSI. I have Lucid.iso on my pen so to have my own OS that I can use personally (i.e. bookmarks, research, surfing, etc) but, it's giving me some networking difficulties.
It is all I have to work with besides the Winblows laptop I can't download on bc I do not have Admin credentials. I am working with an HP Probook 4535s that will boot from USB. I would appreciate anyone who could point me in the right direction. FYI I am willing to read anything 'helpful' but, where to start is the big question. Help on script based on Wary-5.5 'usbflash' 4 my build. This is UPDATED post, thanks to so many good Duds out-there. I edit / update former post as follows: Hi, to your convenience I zipped and attached the relevant original file 'bootflash', hope it's arrived (placed as /usr/sbin/bootflash normally). I do not refer to usbflash later versions less suitable to my needs. Let's focus on the 'Combo..' one - 1. See attached screenshots next post. ********************************************************************************************************* NO HARM EXPECTED TO ANY PRE-EXISTING OPRERATING SYSTEM BEACAUSE WE BOOT THIS BUILD FROM flash USB sdX4 (- for peace of mind please prefer non-system partition, for example: D:\. 2.
A. B. C. D. And - last ... e. 3. 4. ***** Such an ideotic thing that really works ! 5. sdX4 will be flagged as boot but I want to add 'hidden' to it. 6. 7. I plan to publish my build prior to Christmas this year. Timmo. Puppy linux multiboot usb. YaPI (yet another Puppy Installer) install any Puppy iso. FULL credit for this code goes to (Developer/coder L18L) Well, I bugged him to do it. The problem with the Puppy Universal Installer.
It will only install the Puppy version you are running the installer in. It will not do an install from any other Puppy version.iso file. Puppy Linux needs a program, running in Puppy, that will do an install using any Puppy version.iso file. YAPI solves this problem. This is what should be possible with YAPI Which Puppy to install 3 options. 1.This actual running Puppy 2. Type of installs on different storage devices. USB flash drive ( Can have Fat 32 or NTFS Windows format or any Linux format). External USB hard drive (Can have Fat 32 or NTFS Windows format or any Linux format). Internal hard drive or any other type internal drive (Can have Fat 32 or NTFS Windows format or any Linux format). Note: YAPI does use Grub4dos as the bootloader. YAPI seems to work OK when run on the newest Puppy versions, made with Woof-CE. How to install Puppy on USB hard drive? First, the Puppy full install has to be done to a partition formatted in a Linux format.
A frugal install can go on any format. Download the iso file for the Puppy version you want to use. To use it you need to make a Puppy live CD or USB flash drive. To make a Live Puppy USB flash drive use a program like: Unetbootin. Follow the directions for using an iso file you have already downloaded. To make a live Puppy CD or DVD. Now boot the computer using the live Puppy CD or USB flash drive. Puppy has the Puppy universal installer program. Run the Puppy Universal Installer Follow the direction messages and make the selections you want. After you get Puppy installed to the USB hard drive the boot manager you are using will need to be updated with an entry to boot Puppy. Some other boot manager programs can have trouble finding Puppy installs.
If you have a problem, be specific, What program. How to install to Compact Flash directly like Hard Disk.
Isohybrid. Plop. Unetbootin. Install ISO file on Jump Drive. Related Nutz & Boltz (Installation) Iso files (Puppylinux)