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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Usbuntu Live Creator Makes Bootable Linux USB Drives

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Free application uSbuntu Live Creator installs a Live CD from an ISO image onto your USB flash drive—much more useful, portable and easy to deal with than carrying around a CD. More »
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Create A Live-Booting XP CD Or DVD

12:15AM Kevin Purdy | The creators of versatile CD/DVD burning tool CDBurnerXP have posted a guide in their forums to using the program to create a live-booting Windows XP (or 2000/2003) disc. It’s a multi-step process that involves a lot of settings to tweak, but at the end you should have a Windows desktop that loads straight from the boot. If you’re going to roll your own live-boot XP, you might want to get familiar with trimming it down to the bare essentials for faster loads, or slipstreaming your installation to avoid Windows Update nags that will, frankly, never go away. I haven’t given it a thorough test yet, but online forum users seem to give it the thumbs up. Let us know your experience with live-booting XP in the comments. Creating bootable Windows 2000/XP/2003 Disc (CDBurnerXP 3) [via Confessions of a Freeware Junkie (Delicious)] More »
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Fix Windows’ Master Boot Record with an Ubuntu Live CD

12:30AM Kevin Purdy | If you’ve ever delved into the realm of Windows/Linux dual-booting, you probably know that the Master Boot Record can unexpectedly stop working, leaving you locked out of your Windows system. If you don’t have (or just don’t want to dig up) your Windows installation CD to fix it, ArsGeek has a handy tutorial on un-wonking the MBR with an Ubuntu live CD. The guide seemingly requires a working internet connection from inside the live session, but all should be well once you download the ms-sys application and run the right command. Except for the installation line, this guide could work for other Linux live CDs as well. For other live CD options, check out Gina’s Top 10 free computer system recovery tools. How to fix your Windows MBR with an Ubuntu liveCD [ArsGeek] More »
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Saturday, October 6, 2007

Taking Puppy Linux for a Walk

2:00AM Gina Trapani | Booting Linux from an external drive with the applications and settings of your choice has never been easier after this week’s release of Puppy Linux 3.0. Like Damn Small Linux, Puppy is small enough to fit on a USB thumb drive, and like Knoppix , you can boot it from CD. Puppy can also add your favourite open source applications to the desktop and save multiple user profiles back to your writable CD or thumb drive, too. Let’s take a look at how you can take your operating system, apps, data and user settings to go with Puppy Linux. More »
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