I install lots of distros. Several each week. I am a self-confessed distro junky. I have a collection of ISOs that go back many years. In fact I have boxes of spools of full CDs and DVDs. Aside from the space and environmental concerns, it is an expensive and time consuming obsession. Now, I have a solution. Better late than never as they say.
My solution is a utility called Unetbootin. It allows me to copy an ISO to a usb key in less than five minutes. The usb key is bootable in the same way that a live CD or DVD would be
http://linuxcanuck.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... netbootin/
distro checking with Unetbootin
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Yes your BIOS must be set to boot USB as the primary device or if you do not have the option to specify usb as boot device you can set usb boot as a option in grub or lilo which ever one you prefer to use.x2oxen said: "with that software what options you need to set in your boot order? 1st boot device should be usb??"
check out this detailed howto on grub configuration to boot from usb devices.
http://mt-umunhum-wireless.net/hacks/US ... _GRUB.html
hope this helps.
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You will need a boot loader on the MBR of any device in order to boot from it. So it will not work if you just extract the files to that device.x2oxen wrote:If you need to set first boot device usb then you don't need that software i think so. Just extract the iso image with any software (which read iso image) on "/" of flash drive.