Install any linux from a usb the easy way

Are you tired of wasting all your disks on linux distros?
Mabye your cd drive is broken?
Or mabye you cant be bothered to get a disk out and burn the linux iso?

In this instructable I am going to show you how to install linux from a usb the easiest way I know how.

Step 1 What you need

Ok,what you need is...
1.A copy of linux.This can be any one you want. If you havent got one then have
a look around and see what suites you the best.If you are looking for a simple user
friendly os I would suggest linux mint http://www.linuxmint.com/

2.You will need this program http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ 

3. A usb =)

Comments

[pfred2]

I love Unetbootin if the PC I am installing to has a USB port, and can boot off of it. Unfortunately that is not always the case. I can recall some Linux distribution not working with Unetbootin at all too. Although I cannot remember right now which it was. It may have been Arch. Whatever it was I remember I couldn't even get it to work with the manual image installation in Unetbootin. But manually setting up the flash drive I managed to get the distro to USB boot.

[SpeakerBoy]

Another relatively "beginner friendly" distro to try is Puppy Linux. Of the 4 or 5 others I tried to install, Puppy was fast, friendly, and functional. UNetBootin rocks! Thanks!

[siamonsez]

Many Linux distros can be run directly from the usb stick, so it is easy to try one out for a few days before committing. This also allows for testing out several distros to find one that suits you.