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For beginners to Linux the range of distributions can be daunting. Should I investigate Ubuntu, Arch Linux, openSUSE, elementaryOS, or even try Solus, the best newcomer to the scene? A good way to experiment with Linux distributions and find the one that best fits your needs is to create a bootable SD card or USB drive flashed with the Linux distros. The tools featured in this article make this process simple and safe.
Our highest recommendation goes to Etcher. It's incredibly easy to use with a simple interface, and hard drive friendly. Etcher is not the only admirable open source tool for flashing operating system images. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 4 high quality open source tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to install various Linux distributions and operating systems on a removable flash drive or external hard disk.
For MS Windows users, this single file "rufus.exe" is an excellent tool to write/burn a .ISO file to a USB Flash drive. Rufus does not require installation, and its small size 1.5 Megabytes leads to a quick download. You can run rufus from a command line window by typing "rufus.exe" or click on it from a GUI file window, like windows explorer. Rufus.exe is a single executable file. Download the executable and run it – no installation is necessary.
Rufus is the fastest at writing the .ISO file into the USB Flash drive. For these benefits, I recommend using "Rufus.exe" to MS Windows computer users who wish to try any Linux Distribution or BSD Distributions from DistroWatch website http://www.distrowatch.com
I, also, recommend trying Slacko 6.3.2 PuppyLinux from http://slacko.eezy.xyz to new to Linux users as a good first Linux distro because of its small size 200 Megabytes and fast operation from DRAM memory.
My own blog post titled: "10 minutes, 2 downloads, 1 usb flash drive" to test drive PuppyLinux from MS Windows
I have used those other tools also. I recommend Etcher tool http://etcher.io as being easy to run and has helpful messages. I enjoyed using Linux Live USB http://linuxliveusb.com, because it would FTP download your selection from 350 Linux .ISO Files, like Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com and the write/burn that .ISO file to a USB Flash Drive.
What ever tool you choose, enjoy Linux and BSD in your neighborhood. Make a bootable USB Flash drive as a safety measure to have available when a computer can't boot from the hard disk drive. Booting from the USB Flash drive, you can save files and pictures off from a working hard drive to the USB Flash drive or an external USB Hard drive.
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I, also, recommend trying Slacko 6.3.2 PuppyLinux from http://slacko.eezy.xyz to new to Linux users as a good first Linux distro because of its small size 200 Megabytes and fast operation from DRAM memory. My own blog post titled: "10 minutes, 2 downloads, 1 usb flash drive" to test drive PuppyLinux from MS Windows
http://puppylinux-or-pcbsd.blogspot.com/2016/08/10-minutes-2...
I have used those other tools also. I recommend Etcher tool http://etcher.io as being easy to run and has helpful messages. I enjoyed using Linux Live USB http://linuxliveusb.com, because it would FTP download your selection from 350 Linux .ISO Files, like Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com and the write/burn that .ISO file to a USB Flash Drive.
What ever tool you choose, enjoy Linux and BSD in your neighborhood. Make a bootable USB Flash drive as a safety measure to have available when a computer can't boot from the hard disk drive. Booting from the USB Flash drive, you can save files and pictures off from a working hard drive to the USB Flash drive or an external USB Hard drive.
Have a BIOS problems booting from a USB Flash Drive. check out Plop Boot Manager or PlopKexec https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html
Want to try 6 Linux O/S from 1 USB Flash Drive? http://multibootcd.exton.net/