Want To Boot Linux From A Flash Drive?

I have tried a lot of different Linux distro’s, they all have iso’s you can put on a CD. But this would take a crazy number of CD’s.  There are ways to put a distro on a USB flash drive yourself see pendrivelinux.com.  What if you just don’t want to bother with installing different pieces of software to get the USB flash drive to boot?

Install and search for packages with apt

“Mini How To” Install and search for packages with apt.

Looking for how to install packages bij the “point and click” method click here.

Let’s say you wanna install a package but you don’t know for sure if it’s in the repository’s.  Then you can use this Terminal command to do so:

We’ll search for firefox as an example.

apt-cache search firefox

As you can see this displays a list of all packages related to Firefox.

Now let’s install Firefox:

Here we have to use sudo or apt won’t work and tell you:

Remastersys.

11-06-2008–Changed the contents of the conf file and added the CDBOOTTYPE option to the example in this article

I found this great little app. called Remastersys, that I use for backing up or as I call it making a snapshot of our systems.

It was written by Tony Brijeski aka Fragadelic. And he wrote it as a backup utility for Klikit-Linux(powered by Kubuntu) and Ubuntu.  I was looking for something that would make backing up my Kubuntu installs(we have 5 computers all running Kubuntu) easy.

Tony wanted a simple way to create a distributable copy of a Ubuntu or derivative installation.  This is done by making a live CD or DVD. I’ve made several backups already using Remastersys and i must say I love it.