With a bootable Ubuntu USB stick, you can:
- Install or upgrade Ubuntu, even on a Mac
- Test out the Ubuntu desktop experience without touching your PC configuration
- Boot into Ubuntu on a borrowed machine or from an internet cafe
- Use tools installed by default on the USB stick to repair or fix a broken configuration
Creating a bootable USB stick is very simple, especially if you’re going to use the USB stick with a generic Windows or Linux PC. We’re going to cover the process in the next few steps.
Apple hardware considerations
Install Slax On Usb
- Slax is a Live operating system based on Linux. Live means it runs from an external media without any need for permanent installation. Slax boots from USB mass storage devices such as Flash Drive keys as well as from regular hard drives and CD/DVD discs. Simply plug your device in and boot from it.
- The first option is “Install by cloning.” That’s the one you want. Once you click that, you’ll be able to select your second USB to install on. Confirm your install. After the installer finishes, you’ll have a working Tails USB. Shut down your computer, unplug the first USB, and power it back on. You’ll find yourself in your working.
How To Install Slax On Usb
Slax (and its fork Porteus) is not meant to be installed to a HDD, it is meant to be a highly compressed, modular OS run from USB/CD/DVD. (It takes some patience to do any kind of customization to it.) Instead, you should install a more typical distro like Debian (which Slax is based on) or Ubuntu. If you like Slax, you may decide later to install it to a USB or HDD, and then it would be possible to install Sea Monkey too. But it will be good to run Slax just from the CD for a little while to see how you like it. Straight Installation vs. While there are some computers that come with Linux Mint.
There are a few additional considerations when booting the USB stick on Apple hardware. This is because Apple’s ‘Startup Manager’, summoned by holding the Option/alt (⌥) key when booting, won’t detect the USB stick without a specific partition table and layout. We’ll cover this in a later step.