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Live Installation to External Device
Puppy Linux can run directly from an external device such as an USB flash memory drive, SD flash memory card, hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD).How to create a live installation to external device
- acquire the image file (with file extension .img or .iso) of the desired operating system, such as a recent Puppy Linux release (read Appendix 2)
- write (burn) the image file (with file extension .img or .iso) to an external device
How to write (burn) an image file to external device
- From Within GNU/Linux
- ensure an external device is connected to the computer, usually via a USB port
- write (burn) the image file (with file extension .img or .iso) to external device, via the command-line interface (WARNING the dd command will overwrite all existing data on the target device X, where X represents the device letter for your target device - USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK):
time sudo dd bs=4M conv=notrunc,fdatasync oflag=direct status=progress if=<IMAGE FILE> of=/dev/sdX
IMPORTANT: determine the correct device name (sdX) of the target device, via the command-line interface:
lsblk
- From Within Microsoft Windows
- ensure an external device is connected to the computer, usually via a USB port
- use this free software Rufus (the latest version of Rufus requires Windows 8 or later; last supported version for Windows 7 is version 3.22)
How to run GNU/Linux from the external device
- ensure the external device is connected to the computer, usually via a USB port
- ensure that the B.I.O.S. is configured to follow the correct boot sequence (read Appendix 3)
- shutdown the computer and ensure that the computer is switched off
- switch on the computer
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