How to make a bootable portable operating system.
There are many live CDs (mainly LINUX flavors) which can be made to boot from a pen drive or an external hard drive.
Although I have booted knoppix, SuSE, MANDRIVA, operator, backtrack and more, I am going to discuss one of them which I am working on now
(Hint: - You have to insert an “f” somewhere in the file.)
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Although I have booted knoppix, SuSE, MANDRIVA, operator, backtrack and more, I am going to discuss one of them which I am working on now
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- Download “backtrack USB” from net (FREE).
- Extract to any preformatted FAT32 external drive (drive or partition should be more that 1 GB).
- Make sure that the folders BOOT and BT3 come directly on to the drive, not in any subfolders (it’s easier if you don’t use them from any subfolders, less configuration needed).
- Open the boot folder from the portable drive and then run bootinst.bat (if you are now windows) or bootinst.sh (if you are now in LINUX) .For windows the bootinst.bat should run directly, for LINUX you would have to run bootinst.sh in console.
- Be careful, the above files should only be run from the drive you are willing to make bootable; otherwise you would be in trouble booting your default next time.
- In first screen it would give a warning message, read it thoroughly, then continue to press any key
- on the next screen read the second line
- If it says the drive should be bootable now- then you are all set to boot you portable OS.
- If it says that the partition is not on a portable media-then you would have to work a little bit more, but, don’t worry.
(Hint: - You have to insert an “f” somewhere in the file.)
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 |  Good post... Will try...  BTW, Link to the blog in ur signature is not working... Kindly correct it. |
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| |  Thanks ,will correct it now. |
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| |  good! Man, i would like to boot from portable disk, Any guides? |
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