In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

The CDROM image was a firmware upgrade image from Dell (based on Linux). Mounting the image with iDRAC, it worked nicely. As one of the Servers had a dying iDRAC (Dell R320), I needed an USB stick.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A bootable USB key is a convenient way to install operating systems on netbooks without optical ...

USB devices are block devices like any other. Linux doesn't care if you install or boot from a SATA disk or a USB disk, it makes no differences in that regard. The only niggle is can be BIOS support, ...

We list the best USB bootable distros, to make it simple and easy to recover data, work from home or install new software. There are several uses for shoving Linux distros inside a USB flash drive.

Richard Purdy’s PC won’t boot when he has a flash drive plugged into it. That happens to me all the time. Here’s the problem: All PCs have a configurable boot order list. They try to boot from the ...