bootable usb flash

[nikibg]

Hi,

I am novice in linux and
I have to make bootable flash drive to boot linux distro from it.
It will make ram disk so I'll need somewhere to save data.
What i must do 2 partition one for boot and one for storage and how to make them
Pls help me

[kurt18947]

Both Unetbootin and Startup Disk will do this. They install the O.S. then create an ext2 partition for persistence. A limitation of the 'liveUSB' is that the O.S. cannot be reliably updated. Here is one discussion of live USB compared to full install:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1480144

Here is another though it's Fedora so terms are different:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221719

[nikibg]

10x for fast answer but i work with server platform and i dont know comands for Startup disc creator

[kurt18947]

10x for fast answer but i work with server platform and i dont know comands for Startup disc creator

I don't know what's installed with on a server install. I can launch USB creator from a terminal with this command:


usb-creator-gtkI doubt this would work if gtk is not installed. Unetbootin is available for both Linux and Windows if that is a better option.

[cortman]

You can use dd if you're on a headless server. Info here (http://askubuntu.com/questions/21303/create-usb-installer-from-the-command-line/142587#142587).

Or use LiLi if you have Windows access (my favorite program for burning bootable media).