Remaster Knoppix without Remastering
Kyle Rankin, author of Knoppix Hacks, has a Google Tech Talk presentation video detailing tricks for customizing Knoppix without going through the lengthy remastering process.
Daily 5: Five uses for an Ubuntu LiveCD
OMG! Ubuntu! has an article covering additional uses for the Ubuntu LiveCD besides installation.
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
Lifehacker has a Top 10 list of cool stuff to do with a USB flash drive. Numbers 9, 7, and 1 involve Live booting operating systems from them.
LiveUSB Drives: Why, How-to, and Where At
I'll just get this out right now, I've fallen for Live USB drives. Yes, and if you haven't yet, you will. What fills an entire CD, only fills 17% of a 4GB thumb drive (8% of an 8GB, 4% of a 16GB, 2% of a 32GB, and so on). And you don't have to throw them away when you're done using them or if they're outdated, you just reinstall.
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Make your own Custom LiveCD/distro easily Using Novo Builder
OMG! Ubuntu! is featuring Novo Builder, an easy to use LiveCD/DVD creation tool.
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How to run Linux from a USB drive
TechRadar takes Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10 and installs them on USB flash drives.
You'll need a flash drive with at least 1GB of free space, and ISO images of either Ubuntu 8.10 or Fedora 9. It's likely there are other distros out there that work with similar or perhaps even identical instructions, but Ubuntu and Fedora are the big two so we stuck with them.
7 Uses of GParted Live
LinuxHaxor.net has a list of useful tasks for the GParted LiveCD.
We all fill up our hard-drives from time to time, but thanks to Gnome GParted, rearranging disk partitions isn’t as terrifying as it used to be. In fact, armed with a GParted Live CD, there’s a swathe of disk space fiddling jobs I can tackle without gnawing my fingers to the bone:
Why you want a Linux Live CD
The Defensive Computing blog at CNET News has a great introduction to LiveCDs and their practical uses.
Now, another emphatic endorsement - all Windows users should have a Linux Live CD, and, know how to use it.
How to make a live CD/DVD from your harddisk installation
Highlighted by the latest Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (#88), there's a great tutorial in the Ubuntu forums for transforming an Ubuntu install into a custom LiveCD/DVD.
This HOWTO is about making a live CD/DVD from the main system on your hard drive. This might be desired if you have customized your system and want to have it on CD. It can be useful also if you want to create a recovery CD from scratch, as you can make a minimal system using debootstrap and transform it into a live CD.
How To Reset A Forgotten Root Password With Knoppix
HowtoForge resets the root password of a Linux system with Knoppix.
Running Xubuntu on the Eee PC
Ars Technica's open source journal has news and links to running a modified Xubuntu 7.10 off a USB flash drive on an Eee laptop. The installer still works too, so installing permanently is an option.
Creating Your Own Custom Ubuntu 7.10 Or Linux Mint 4.0 Live-CD With Remastersys | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials
HowtoForge has instructions for building a custom LiveCD out of an Ubuntu based system.
This guide shows how you can create a Live-CD from your Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Linux Mint 4.0 system with a tool called remastersys. Remastersys is available in the Linux Mint romeo repository. You can customize your Ubuntu/Linux Mint system and then let remastersys create an iso image of it which you can then burn onto a CD/DVD.
I am Fedora, and so can you!
Red Hat Magazine has instructions for making a Fedora 8 bootable USB flash drive.
I am writing this article on a Windows laptop borrowed from a friend. But fear not, dear reader, for I have not abandoned my free software principles. For while the hard disk of this laptop contains the Windows operating system, I have used a USB key as the boot device, and the laptop is currently running Fedora 8, codenamed “Werewolf.”
Partition and Image Your Hard Drive with the System Rescue CD
Lifehacker has a great set of instructions for using SystemRescueCD to create, move, and copy partitions on a normal PC.
Manage partitions and disks with GParted-Clonezilla live CD
Linux.com has instructions for backing up partitions using GParted-Clonezilla.
Backing up partitions and hard disks sounds like work -- until youve tried Clonezilla. With Clonezilla you can clone and duplicate partitions of various formats and disks of various sizes locally or over the network. Even more impressive is the fact that you can do all this without typing complicated commands. And since Clonezilla is available as part of the GParted-Clonezilla live CD, you dont even have to install it.
Spin your own live CD
Free Software Magazine takes us through the simple process of creating a custom LiveCD with the recently released Fedora 7.
A few weeks ago, I promised to explain how to create your own custom live CD with Fedora’s new tools. Well, last week Fedora 7 was launched and all the tools you need are available in the repositories. This even includes a brand new graphical tool, put together by the people at Fedora Unity, called Revisor, which will allow you to spin your own live CD or installation material in an unbelievably user friendly manner.
Recover Data From RAID 1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD
HowtoForge walks through recovering data from a RAID 1 setup using Knoppix.
Non-Destructive Partitioning with GParted
Blogcritics.org goes over repartition a hard drive with the GParted LiveCD.
"Okay, little Percival, let me tell you what partitioning was like in the old days. If you already had information on your hard drive, but wanted to re-partition it, all your data would be erased. There were programs available that would partition your drive without erasing all your stuff, but they cost money."
The Lazy Guide to Installing Knoppix on a USB Key
Tuxmachines.org has a howto for putting Knoppix on a USB flash drive and making it bootable.
Of course, it can be even more portable when it runs entirely off of an inexpensive USB key. So let's install it to a 1 GB USB key, and create a persistent home directory in which to store files. Only let's do it the lazy way, and keep use of the command prompt to a bare minimum.
Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive
Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks has step by step instructions for copying an Ubuntu LiveCD to a USB flash drive. In the end you get a bootable flash drive, which can be used for installing Ubuntu on a computer without a CD drive, or getting the LiveCD experience with something you can fit in your pocket.