HowToMakeLiveUSB en

How to make bootable live USB

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Please do the following steps by your own risk. Keep in mind that all the contents of the hard disk drive will be lost if you make a mistake especially in the device name.

1. Prepare USB Flash memory with more than 4 GB (over 8 GB is recommended).

2. Download ISO image (hereafter, it calls MateriAppsLive-1.4.hybrid.iso).

3. Write the system to USB using dd command. (Please make sure that the device name is correct, before start writing!)

   • For Linux: check the device name by

       fdisk -l
     

     (/dev/sdb is assumed in the following.) Check the output of df command, and umount /dev/sdb0, /dev/sdb1, etc if needed

     sudo umount /dev/sdb0
     

     Next, write the system to USB using dd command.

     sudo dd if=MateriAppsLive-1.4.hybrid.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
     

   • For Mac OS X: check the device name by

       diskutil list
     

     (/dev/disk1 is assumed in the following.) Umount /dev/disk1s1 by

     diskutil umount /dev/disk1s1
     

     Next, write the system to USB using dd command. (Note that m is the small letter in "bs=4m")

     sudo dd if=MateriAppsLive-1.4.hybrid.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=4m
     

   • For Windows (7, 8, 8.1)

     Download "DDforWindows" from http://www.si-linux.co.jp/techinfo/index.php?DD%20for%20Windows and run it as an administrator.

4. Make persistence area (partition). (Note: The following steps can not be done on Mac OS X or Windows. Please boot from the USB flash memory made at step 3, open a terminal window in MateriApps LIVE!, then execute the following commands.)

   1. Start fdisk (please make sure that the device name is correct!)

      sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

   2. Push "p" key to check current partition table.

      Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 1014 1573712 17 Hidd HPFS/NTFS

   3. Make a persistent partition (/dev/sdb2) after /dev/sdb1. (「n」→「p」→「1015」→Return)

   4. Write the partition table into the USB by pusshing w key, and exit from fdisk.

   5. Make ext4 file system.

      sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2 -L persistence

      If you encounter an error message at this point, please try to reboot the system.

   6. Make persistence.conf

      sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt echo "/ union" | sudo tee -a /mnt/persistence.conf sudo umount /mnt

Newly created or modified files on MateriApps LIVE! will be recorded in /dev/sdb2 persistently, and will not be deleted even after reboot.

Reference: http://live.debian.net/manual/stable/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#186