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Written by Jalil   
Thursday, 13 March 2008
YES! it is possible to have a whole Linux operating system on your USB memory stick. There are many Linux distributions that have been tailored to fit into an affordable 1GB USB pen drive.

I have tried one myself and confirm that it works as if it was installed in your hard disk. The Linux distribution I tried is "BackTrack3" from www.remote-exploit.org

There was no effort what so ever required to run Linux from my USB pen drive, as the guys from BackTrack prepared everything for you. You only need to download the 900MB Rar archive file which contains the operating system and unpack it to the root of your usb stick. Once unpacked, you need to make the usb memory bootable and that is simply achieved by running a batch file which issues commands that modify the MBR of your usb drive so that it boots to the BackTrack Linux.

Now simply restart your computer with the usb stick still plugged in the port, and make sure that USB is first in the boot order (Under BIOS settings) and the Linux will run faster and smoother than with a Live CD image.

" LINUX ON USB " will save your computer when windows crashes for no reason!
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Hamza A Rouabah wrote on April 01, 2008
Title: cool Idea
cool idea, I found this intresting. I will try it.
Thanx Jalil smilies/wink.gif
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Wail Belouettar wrote on March 14, 2008
Title: Thanx jilou
thank mr jalil & i have win xp in usb is good for computer maintenance
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