How To Make A Bootable Flash Drive
Posted: Fri 03 Dec 2010, 08:03
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This will give you a flash drive with two partitions: one bootable with Puppy Linux on it; and the other empty storage space on a FAT32 file system, which means both Linux and Windows can read and save to the partition. It will allow you to save your session files on the storage partition and have them with you anywhere you take the flash drive, along with the space to save any other files you may want to access later with either/both operating systems. Also works with an SD card and card reader.
How I Made A Bootable Thumb Drive With Storage Accessible To Both Puppy Linux And Windows.
1. Boot up Puppy Linux.
2. Insert blank usb flash drive.
3. Open menu -> setup -> installing utilities -> Bootflash install Puppy to usb.
4. Choose ComboFormat and follow instructions to format drive.
5. You will get an option to install puppy, if you have an iso file then go ahead and do it. If not, then use the universal installer after closing this app.
6. When finished, open menu -> system -> system memory -> GParted partition manager.
7. Select the usb drive you are formatting and press ok. A new window will open.
8. You should see two partitions on your flash drive: one about 130mb FAT16 with Puppy installed and one with the remaining storage on your disk called puppysave.
9. Don't mess with the partition with Puppy Linux on it!!
10. Right click and delete the puppysave partition, the one that does not have Puppy Linux saved on it - your storage drive. At the bottom of the window, right click and apply all operations.
11. Right click the unallocated space and create a new primary drive FAT32 file system. At the bottom of the window, apply all operations. I don't know why you have to delete and create a new partition, but it doesn't work if you don't.
You should now be able to boot up Puppy Linux with this flash drive, read and save files to it from within Linux, and also read and save files to it from within Windows. In Windows Computer Manager it will show the Puppy Linux drive, but won't allow you access. You can access the second drive though, the storage drive.
You might have to right click and give the second drive a drive letter before Windows will access it.
If you get a disk error when trying to boot from the flash drive, remove any other usb flash drives from your computer and try again.
edit:
I'm using Windows XP and Puppy Linux Lucid Quickset 5.1.1.
This will give you a flash drive with two partitions: one bootable with Puppy Linux on it; and the other empty storage space on a FAT32 file system, which means both Linux and Windows can read and save to the partition. It will allow you to save your session files on the storage partition and have them with you anywhere you take the flash drive, along with the space to save any other files you may want to access later with either/both operating systems. Also works with an SD card and card reader.
How I Made A Bootable Thumb Drive With Storage Accessible To Both Puppy Linux And Windows.
1. Boot up Puppy Linux.
2. Insert blank usb flash drive.
3. Open menu -> setup -> installing utilities -> Bootflash install Puppy to usb.
4. Choose ComboFormat and follow instructions to format drive.
5. You will get an option to install puppy, if you have an iso file then go ahead and do it. If not, then use the universal installer after closing this app.
6. When finished, open menu -> system -> system memory -> GParted partition manager.
7. Select the usb drive you are formatting and press ok. A new window will open.
8. You should see two partitions on your flash drive: one about 130mb FAT16 with Puppy installed and one with the remaining storage on your disk called puppysave.
9. Don't mess with the partition with Puppy Linux on it!!
10. Right click and delete the puppysave partition, the one that does not have Puppy Linux saved on it - your storage drive. At the bottom of the window, right click and apply all operations.
11. Right click the unallocated space and create a new primary drive FAT32 file system. At the bottom of the window, apply all operations. I don't know why you have to delete and create a new partition, but it doesn't work if you don't.
You should now be able to boot up Puppy Linux with this flash drive, read and save files to it from within Linux, and also read and save files to it from within Windows. In Windows Computer Manager it will show the Puppy Linux drive, but won't allow you access. You can access the second drive though, the storage drive.
You might have to right click and give the second drive a drive letter before Windows will access it.
If you get a disk error when trying to boot from the flash drive, remove any other usb flash drives from your computer and try again.
edit:
I'm using Windows XP and Puppy Linux Lucid Quickset 5.1.1.