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A Live USB is a USB flash drive designed to act like a Live CD. An operating system is installed to it and it may be booted, but it does not install itself on the computer's hard drive(s).

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I've been building a custom Debian Trixie image with live-build to use as a diagnostic tool, and after some struggles, I have it working almost the way I want. It installs some custom tools via the ...
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I flashed the latest live boot iso of Kali Linux into my USB stick using Rufus. I then changed the boot order in my Bios and deactivated safe boot. When I boot using the USB stick I manage to enter ...
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I used dd to write the SystemRescue ( https://www.system-rescue.org/ ) image to a USB stick drive. I used this USB stick to boot into Computer#1 and then used dd to clone the internal system drive to ...
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I am trying to boot into a Kali live with encrypted persistence, and it is asking me to unlock /dev/sda3 when the Persistent petition Is in /dev/sdb3. How can I make it point To the right partition? I ...
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I have had this issue for a while, and I thought the new Linux kernel release would fix it, but it didn’t. I can’t figure out what the error is, I suspect something related to BIOS comparibility, but ...
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I am trying to follow the steps on https://wiki.debian.org/RescueLive to recover my system which is currently not booting. I've created and booted a live version of Debian on a USB stick. However when ...
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I downloaded the latest live CD iso, debian-live-12.7.0-amd64-xfce.iso (MD5:4a3cf002e86c9f034578099670faaa47) and used dd to write it to a USB stick. I booted the stick on a laptop and I got a ...
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I am attempting to install a barebones Arch Linux setup alongside my Windows 11 configuration with the Hyprland desktop environment. However, I am encountering persistent errors during the ...
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