Good story!
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| ComputerBob Oct 03, 2011 12:47 PM EDT |
Linux on a flashdrive really did save the day. |
| jdixon Oct 03, 2011 1:00 PM EDT |
> Do you carry around a Linux flashdrive everywhere you go? Anywhere I have my laptop with me. I keep a couple of bootable usb drives in the carrying case (currently I believe I have Slax, Ubuntu, Mint, Clonzilla, and UBCD4Win). However, my experience with ClamAV has been 50/50. It seems to miss a lot of newer viruses. |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 03, 2011 9:10 PM EDT |
One of the guys I work with has beaten me utterly. He has a flash drive with 6 different boot modes, 4 linux, one Windows rescue, and one which he says "is good for cracking". My PCLinuxOS real install on an 8G thumbdrive just doesn't seem so gnarly any more. Pout pout. |
| jdixon Oct 04, 2011 9:46 AM EDT |
> He has a flash drive with 6 different boot modes, I've looked into doing that, but the largest USB drive I have is 4 GB, which would limit me to about 3 modes, and it just hasn't seem worth the effort when I have several 2GB and 4GB ones lying around. |
| lcafiero Oct 04, 2011 9:43 PM EDT |
There, there, Bob_Robertson -- that 8G drive still seems pretty gnarly to me. This is a great story. I have several thumb drives, most of them with Live CD versions of the latest major distros, but I have them because I've used them to install or "try them out." After this article, I am thinking seriously about carrying a Knoppix USB drive in case of emergency. |
| vainrveenr Oct 05, 2011 3:29 AM EDT |
Quoting:I've looked into doing that, but the largest USB drive I have is 4 GB, which would limit me to about 3 modes, and it just hasn't seem worth the effort when I have several 2GB and 4GB ones lying around. Although one could conceivably use the instructions at Pendrivelinux's 'Boot Multiple ISO from USB via Grub2 using Linux' found at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/ for containing and multibooting the following liveCD distros within just one of those "4GB ones [USB drives] lying around":: * Knoppix 6.7.1, 700MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06886 * SystemRescueCD 2.3.0, 347MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06814 * Finnix 102, 114MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06802 * Ultimate Boot CD 5.1.1, 360MB-sized ISO, latest info at its mainsite http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ * Parted Magic 6.7, 179MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06916 * Incognito Live System 0.8, 581MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06899 * Linux Portable Security 1.2.4, 316MB-sized, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06901 This would yield a useful liveCD mix of bootable Utility, SysAdmin/Rescue and Privacy distros taking up less than 2.5GB, and yet still leaving well over a full GB free on just a SINGLE 4GB USB drive! Perhaps the effort spent to create such a useful liveCD IS worthwhile for some people, no ?? |
| jdixon Oct 05, 2011 6:24 AM EDT |
> Perhaps the effort spent to create such a useful liveCD IS worthwhile for some people, no ?? I'm sure it is. If it weren't, there wouldn't be a number of howto's on the subject floating around. It just hasn't been for me. There's even at least one tool for doing so: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ Added: Actually further checking on the pendrivelinux site reveals there are currently four competing multiboot creators. In addition to yumi, there are the following: Sardu: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/sardu-multiboot-usb-creator-win... Xboot: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/xboot-multiboot-iso-usb-creator... and Multiboot: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/multiboot-create-a-multiboot-us... Only the last seems to work from Linux, however. The rest seem to be Windows programs. |
| penguinist Oct 05, 2011 9:40 AM EDT |
Now, for the next step, someone (vainrveenr, are you listening) should put together an image that can simply be dd'ed to a flashdrive. Now that would be a time saver. |
| vainrveenr Oct 05, 2011 1:02 PM EDT |
Quoting:Actually further checking on the pendrivelinux site reveals there are currently four competing multiboot creators. In addition to yumi, there are the following:OTOH, UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) seems to support similar multiboot creation using both Windows and Linux. Before UNetbootin, and perhaps occuring around the same time as the first Pendrivelinux USB-multiboot instructions, were the efforts of such multiboot "distros" as Billix (http://billix.sourceforge.net/) and Ultilex (http://ultilex.sourceforge.net/). In any case, it is possible to take out the previous suggestion of using the 360MB-sized Ultimate Boot CD 5.1.1, include a few further SysAdmin/Rescue distros to create a useful liveCD/liveUSB mix, and yet still leave over a full GB of free space on that same 4GB USB drive. This by replacing the non-GPL'd Ultimate Boot CD with the following :: * Trinity Rescue Kit 3.4, 146MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06232 * RIPLinuX 13.5, 158MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=rip * PloP Linux 4.1.2, 673MB-sized ISO, latest DistroWatch info at http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06834 |
| ComputerBob Oct 05, 2011 1:20 PM EDT |
Quoting:OTOH, UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) seems to support similar multiboot creation using both Windows and Linux. It used to be possible to do that (for someone who was willing/able to manually edit grub and/or other files), but does the UNetbootin site say that it supports multiboot creations? I've seen articles in the past in which people claimed to have done it with UNetbootin, but I think I also read something awhile ago that said that something changed, and it didn't work any more. |
| jdixon Oct 05, 2011 4:36 PM EDT |
> ...but does the UNetbootin site say that it supports multiboot creations? Not on their home page, no. I don't think it ever has. |
| techiem2 Oct 05, 2011 6:12 PM EDT |
Right now most of my flash drives boot System Rescue CD, I keep a few burned CDs of it in my toolkit, as well as the windows boot repair discs.
I have a few various other distro and utility discs in cases in my backpack. However, I'm waiting for my funded isostick ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elegantinvention/isostic... ) to get built and arrive so I can thin out the collection I carry a bit. :) |
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