How to Run Linux Operating Systems from PenDrive / USB Drive
How to Mount the Linux OS From USB Device
Requirements
1. Pen Drive with minimum space of 2GB
2. LiveBootable Disk Creator Applications
Steps to run Linux OS from Pen Drive
In
this guide, we are going to use LiLi Live USB Creator. Download the
LiLi Live USB creator and install it in your Windows computer. It is
free and Opensource software and also only 4MB.
Once
you start the Application, you may notice the Interface of Live USB
creator is very user-friendly. The app shows all steps to create Live
Linux Disk in a single interface with steps.
Step 1:
Connect you USD device in your computer and select the USN drive in
the Applications using choose your key option. This app only works with
Fat32 file system, so if you have NTFS Pendrive, just format it to Fat
32.
Step 2: In the next step, you have to select your Linux Distro. There is 3 options available in this Live USB Creator.
- You
can choose already downloaded Linux Distro file (ISO,IMG,Zip). Once you
choose the file, the Live USB Creator will check the file and give
verification message.
- You can choose the Linux CD. Insert the Linux CD in the DVD Drive and choose the same.
- Also,
you can download any Linux Distro from the download option. You can
choose either Manual or Automatic option to download the Linux Distros.
You have to select the download location in your computer.
Step 3: In
Persistence step, you must define how much space should be kept free
for your files and how it can be busy with the Linux distribution. The
persistence allows you to keep your preferences and data even after
reboot. If you don’t know how much to give to persistent data, give
between 300 MB and 500 MB. If you intend to make a heavy usage of your
Linux, choose more than 1 GB. Selecting 0 MB means no persistence, only
live mode. Any change made in your Linux will be lost on reboot.
Step 4: In
this step, you have 3 options. The Hide Created files option will hide
all system files in the Pen drive. Next, the format option will erase
all your data in USB drive. The third one “Enable Launching LinuxLive in
Windows” will run the Linux OS in Windows
Step 5: Finally,
Click the Lighting icon to create . Now, the app will verify all the
steps and will extract the ISO file in your Pendrive and make the
bootable LiveUSB Linux Disk.
Now, you can boot the Linux Operating
system using USB disk option when your computer starts. If you use the
Persistent mode, the changes you have made in the Linux will also
available in the next reboot. Now, you can use this as a portable
Operating system with your files and settings.
How to Access Linux Partitions from Windows XP,7,8
Linux is becoming more popular, since it has been used in all kinds of
electronic devices and many Linux Distros are giving Windows like GUI
interface. Also, you can get many Free Linux software Applications
to replace your Windows Machine. Nevertheless, you don’t need to
uninstall Windows to install Linux, you can Dual Boot with your Windows.
If you are a Dual-Boot user like me, you may be aware that you can
access Windows Partitions (Disks) from Linux. That’s fine.
Do you
know, how to access Linux Partitions from Windows? If you are in the
situation to open some files from Linux Drive in Windows, you can only
access that by logging in from Linux. In this article, I’ll show how to
access the Linux Partitions from Windows 7, Windows 8 and XP.
Access Linux Partitions from Windows Operating System
While
Installing any Linux Distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Suse etc, choose the
ext4 filesystem before disk partition which is Linux supported One. DiskInternals Linux Reader
is a free Windows Utility that helps you to read Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 File
systems from windows, so you can read Linux Partitions easily.
You
can download Linux reader for free of cost. Once you install this
program in your Windows system, you can read the Linux Drives like
Windows explorer. This application provides read-only support while
accessing Linux files, which is safe and secure way to process other
operating system files. The best part of this application, you can
access the Linux files from your Windows explorer.
How to use Linux Reader
Download
the Linux reader using the download link below. Launch the program and
you will get the familiar Windows explorer interface like Windows XP. It
will show you all disk partition in your system, you can open your
Linux drive from that list. Highlight the file to get the preview of
that file in the bottom screen and you can get the details of that file
in left side pane.
If you want to make any changes to any files in
Linux drive, you have to import that file to windows to edit that. To
do that, right-click on the file and click save. Now, you can do any
changes from windows Operating system.
Conclusion
Linux
reader is a handy application, if you are the Dual-boot user. You can
access your Linux files instantly from Windows. If you have Dual-boot
with Mac, this program also supports Mac OS X ( HFS ) file system. But
I’ve Windows with Linux and this program helps a lot to open any files.
It’s pretty helpful. What do you think of Linux Reader?
