Live Installation to External Device: PuppyLinux

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Live Installation to External Device

With a live installation of an operating system means that it can be run directly from an external device such as an USB flash memory drive, SD flash memory card, hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state disk drive (SSD), without altering the configuration of the existing operating system on your computer.

How to create a live installation to external device

acquire the disk 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 disk image file (with file extension .img or .iso) to an external device

How to write (burn) a disk image file to external device

From within GNU/Linux

ensure the target device is disconnected from the computer

list all USB external devices connected to the computer, via the command-line interface:
lsblk

connect the target device to the computer via an USB port

IMPORTANT determine the correct device name (sdX) of the target device by invoking the lsblk command again, and comparing both outputs:
lsblk

write (burn) the disk 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=<DISK IMAGE FILE> of=/dev/sdX

From within Microsoft Windows

ensure an external device is connected to the computer, usually via a USB port

use the 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

Appendix 1

With a live installation one can do almost anything one can from a normal installation:

Safely browse the Internet without storing any history or cookie data

Access files and edit files stored on one's computer or external device

Create new office suite documents and save them remotely

Fix broken system configurations to get a computer running again

Appendix 2

https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html#EasyDD_frontend_for_dd

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