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How can I create a multiplatform (PC/Mac/Linux) USB stick with a Live Linux + webserver on it?
The goal woulb de to have a USB stick, bootable on any system, containing a local webserver to host various offline versions of websites. This stick can then be used to show demos of websites to ...
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How can one create a bootable Linux USB key that works on Mac (Intel 64 bit CPU) hardware?
I'm trying to create a bootable USB key with Linux (debian) and that can be booted on Macintel hardware.
I have read that MAC's EFI can only boot GPT GUID formatted disks. I'm desperately trying to ...
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Boot from disk with both usb and sata
I have a SSD Harddisk with both an usb and Sata connection, and I want to be able to boot both from usb and sata but I can't make it work.
When the disk is connected with sata anything works fine ...
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Cannot boot Live USB, Linux
I am trying to boot into GParted-Live or Ubuntu-Live off a USB, it just won't happen.
I formatted a USB with files for GParted-Live found here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php and the ...
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If using a bootable Ubuntu USB drive, can I use the internal hard drive as a temporary download and staging area for software package updates?
I am new to Linux, so this is probably a basic problem...
My flash drive is only 4GB in size and that is not enough to hold kernel and other package updates, even if only temporary. I am actually ...
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How to make Slitaz USB persistent
I installed Slitaz on a USB pendrive. However I can't figure out how to make it persistent automatically. There are different sources telling me different ways to make it persistent.
One told me to ...
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How can I create an encrypted, bootable thumbdrive containing Linux?
I want to have a bootable flash drive that's fully encrypted. I have not tested, but seem to like, TrueCrypt, which provides a fully encrypted system and has lots of other features I like (for ...
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Booting from a USB
Will booting linux (slitaz) from my USB drive damage my original OS (windows vista)?
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How to boot a Linux live USB on a Mac?
I have a USB stick with a Fedora 11 live environment on it.
It's booting fine on 3 PCs where I've tried it.
But I can't get it to boot on a Mac (Intel). When pressing the alt key (or command key, I ...
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Booting Linux off USB pendrives
Booting a Linux system off USB pendrives is one of my favorite things.
On a laptop we have the following advantages,
The hard disk drive can be shutdown and that reduces power consumption (hdparm)
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