How to Install Linux/BSD without a CD


	How to Install Linux/BSD without a CD

EApubs

8-30-2009 11:22 AM

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bios, booting, linux, live usb, operating system, unetbootin, universal serial bus, usb flash drive

EApubs says:

I don’t know about others but these days Im getting away from CDs and DVDs, I used to use my USB instead, because it won’t get damaged like CDs easily and its very…very portable! Thats when storing data… but can we install an operating system without a CD?

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Thats when storing data… but can we install an operating system without a CD?<SPAN id="more-535"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earth-org.com/blogs/2009/08/install-linuxbsd-without-cd/"><P>Why not? Sure we can install an <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system" rel="wikipedia" title="Operating system" class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000002c5ef">OS</A> from a USB! There are lots of software on the net which we can use for this purpose, today we are going to talk about one those software… <A href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" rel="homepage" title="UNetbootin" class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006b51bd9">UNetbootin</A>!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earth-org.com/blogs/2009/08/install-linuxbsd-without-cd/"><P>We can use Unetbootin to to make a Bootable <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB" rel="wikipedia" title="Live USB" class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000c6b991">Live USB</A> drive (<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" rel="wikipedia" title="Linux" class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dafbd5">Linux</A>/BSD) or you can use it to make a “frugal install” on your local hard disk if you don’t have a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive" rel="wikipedia" title="USB flash drive" class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000021e3fa">USB drive</A>…pretty cool isn’t it?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B4B75AC2-C5A6-4313-92D9-569A7A8B7B75/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>