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Boot FlashDisk
« on: July 01, 2006, 04:38:26 PM »
If I went to www.bootdisk.com and loaded boot files onto my flash drive, would the flash drive boot?
What about a CD?

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Re: Boot FlashDisk
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2006, 05:34:42 PM »
Does your motherboard support booting from USB? If so, then flash drives are bootable. You just have to load the files correctly, just like a hard drive. You can look around and see if bootable CD ISO's are available.

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Re: Boot FlashDisk
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2006, 05:49:30 PM »
Ok.
Now, I know I can do a google search.
But this is something that I want recommended to me by an experienced user

Are there any Linux or other operating systems that are no more than 20MB that could fit on my flash drive?

Thanks for any helpful posts!

(hard to type after mowing the lawn)

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Re: Boot FlashDisk
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2006, 08:58:52 PM »
*censored* Small Linux is 50 megs. Anything smaller and you probably would not like it or have any use for it.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

This is a quite usable product. Download and burn as an ISO to a CD and boot with that.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2006, 09:01:11 PM by GX1_Man »