If you choose to create a bootable USB stick, you have to use a dedicated piece of software such as Universal USB Installer or Rufus. Otherwise, you have to burn the image to a disk Boot to live ...

So question for all you software guys, but if I wanted to make a thumbdrive that could run the installers for multiple OS's, can it even be done and how would I best go about doing it? What I'm ...

There you have it. Now you know how to set up your USB flash drive to run Linux. Keep in mind that any changes you make while running Linux Live will not be saved. If you like what you see and want to ...

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