I have had a spare 1G thumb drive lying around, a gimme from a conference my company went to, and really haven’t decided what to do with it yet. In lieu of this, I went searching for some distros to put on it. Obviously the prime choice is Damn Small Linux but I wanted to see what else was available. After some fine Google searching, I came across Fedora 9’s new Live USB Creator
Now, I know all good admins hate Fedora with a passion, but hey, this is for the sake of testing stuff out!
So I downloaded the tool via this link: Download
Once you download, extract, and run the exe, you get this screen:
Here is where the tool excels immediately:
You can use an existing live cd you have downloaded to your pc, or you this tool will download it for you.
Here are the different distros you can choose from:
I did not have an active live cd on my machine, so I let the tool download one for me. I went with Fedora 9 KDE , as Fedora doesn’t seem like Fedora without a GUI .
The persistent overlay function is highly valuable as it sets your working storage space. Typically you will want to set this to at least 205M but, ultimately this is up to you.
So, I was able to finally test out the USB key, and man, the new KDE is amazing. Almost makes me want to take out my centos system and load in this new Fedora 9. Fortunately though, I wont be as CentOS is better for OpenVZ .
So, in summary, this system is truly bad ass, especially for you rack monkeys out there that are tired of live cds, and want to make easy live keys.
Posted by Drwndx, filed under Geek |
Date: June 23, 2008, 9:57 am |