How To Run Linux to USB Device

Getting Linux to run on a USB Drive may easily seem to be an overwhelming process, but we put together a very simple guide that an absolute novice could follow.

1.0 Formatting The USB Storage Device

1.1) Insert your USB Storage Device into an empty USB slot on your PC.

1.2) Download and Install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Once the usb disk storage format tool is installed, run it by double clicking its icon on the desktop.

1.3) Use the following settings in the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

• Device: The name and capacity of your storage device
• File system: FAT
• Volume label: Name it what you want (I chose LINUX)
• Confirm the Format by clicking Yes.
• Once the Format is complete it will give you a list of information about the file system, volume, etc. about your device. Click OK.

2.0 Extracting Necessary Files

2.1) Download and Extract the Damn Small Linux distro (dsl-embedded.zip) to your USB device using Win-Zip or any extraction software.

2.2) Download and Extract all the files from syslinux-3.11 to a folder named Syslinux on your primary hard drive (mine is C:)

2.3) Go to the Run Menu (Click Start> Run) and open the Command Prompt by entering cmd and pressing Enter (or Click OK).

2.4) At the Command Prompt type cd c:\syslinux\win32 (substitute c: for the drive letter of your hard drive) and Press Enter

Type syslinux.exe -f F: (F: reprents the drive letter of my USB Device. Yours may be different. GET THIS RIGHT). Press Enter.

Type exit to close the Command Prompt

3.0 Booting to Linux

3.1) Keep your USB Device plugged in and Reboot your PC.
3.2) Enter your BIOS setup (usually by pressing F2 or DEL) and set your Boot order to boot from the USB Device First. Exit your BIOS and Save the Changes. Since there are MANY different BIOS you must figure out on your own if your PC supports booting from USB.

If all goes well you’ll be presented with Damn Small Linux’s Boot Screen. Press Enter and continue the boot process.

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SLAX 6.0.9

Slax is a Linux Live CD operating system based on Slackware. It does not need to be installed on a computer system's hard drive; it boots and runs from either a CD or USB drive. There is also an option to run Slax from RAM. SLAX was developed by Tomáš Matějíček in Czech republic using the Linux Live scripts.

Features :

One of the primary features of Slax is easy customization. Additional software, such as Slackware packages, can be added to the basic CD to customize the distribution. The Slax homepage offers a software repository for downloading user created packages (modules) and uploading new ones. ^[1]

Slax modules are rather simple for the average user to create, customize, and install. Slax lzm modules can be created with the help of the debian package tools (dpkg) module available on the Slax website module page, which enables one to be able to convert deb (Debian) packages into Slax modules using the deb2lzm command, the syntax being deb2lzm source_filename.deb [output_file.lzm]. Additionally one can create Slax modules from folders containing the full path of the folders and files intended to be installed using dir2lzm, the syntax being dir2lzm source_directory output_file.lzm. An example of a folder made to place a file entitled 1.txt in a folder located at /root/Desktop/1/ would contain the following file and folders:

/root/
/root/Desktop/
/root/Desktop/1/
/root/Desktop/1/1.txt

Slax stores all its modules in compressed read-only files (SquashFS file system images using the LZMA compression patches). The various modules are stacked together to build the complete Slax root file system. A supplemental writable layer (a TmpFS file system) is put on the top of the stack to implement the write functionality.

The stackable file system of choice changed between Slax 5 (UnionFS) and 6 (AuFS), as did the module file name extension (changed from .mo to .lzm). A Live USB of SLAX can be created manually or with UNetbootin ^[2].

You Can Download : Slax 6.0.9

Referer http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php

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