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Topic: Any Way to have ISO burnt to USB Key?
started by: mmek

Posted by mmek on Mar. 23 2005,17:31

Hello all,

I was just wondering, is there a way to burn the image to a USB Key instead of a CD? I want to use my USBKey to boot some utilities. It is so much easier than carrying around a cd. Please let me know. Thanks.

Mike

Posted by smartsaga on Mar. 24 2005,00:49

Yes there is a way, kind of. Some Linux distributions (that's what they are called) have support to boot from a USB key disk. How is this useful to you? Well, there are programs called boot loaders that are in charge of "booting" the operating system: Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, etc. There are ways to install such boot loaders to boot multiple operating systems from a USB key disk.

Here are some links to USB bootable Linux Distros:

< http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ >
< http://www.flashlinux.org.uk/ >
< http://www.flonix.com/article.php?id_article=102 >

And of course some info to actually make your own bootable USB key disk:

< http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php >
< http://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/index.php >
< http://www.embeddingwindows.com/ >

Hope this helps.

Have a good one.