How to Make Your USB Flash Drive as An USB Installer
Why do you buy a USB flash Drive, It uses to save your data only or you use it for USB installer? Today you can take advantage of your USB flash Drive to install Operating System (OS) or An USB installer. You can use it to install windows, GNU/Linux and other applications (media recovery, virus scanners, troubleshooter and etc).
To install the Operating System typically use a CD / DVD. What about netbooks that don’t have internal optical drive? You can use the optical drive external to do it, but now you can also use USB flash Drive as an USB installer. It’s cheaper, also more compact than the external optical drive.
For Linux, you can get the ISO file for free on the internet, while for Windows (XP or Windows 7) you can buy an ISO file in Microsoft site. Additionally you can use it to the installer application and also media recovery. Basically they are a collection of tools that are packaged in a form of ISO. Furthermore, the ISO file is “burn” into the USB flash Drive and will create a media recovery or a CD rescue like Hiren’s Boot CD or Ultimate Boot CD that can use as a troubleshooter when your PC, Notebook or Netbook have some problem. You can also use it as a portable virus scanner. Today, Antivirus software is already provides a CD rescue also which contains a virus scanner.
How to Make USB Installer
1. Prepare the USB Flash drive with a minimum capacity of 4 GBs. The greater capacity of USB flash Drive, so the more an ISO file that can be included in the USB flash Drive.
2. The PC, with Windows XP, Windows & or GNU / Linux (Ubuntu or its derivatives is recommended)
3. For Windows users, download Yumi tool (Universal Multiboot Your Installer) in pendrivelinux.com/downloads/YUMI/YUMI-0.0.1.6.exe, or select the latest stable version. For Linux, download multisystem in liveusb.info/multisystem/install-depot-multisystem.sh.tar.bz2.
4. Prepare an ISO file that will be included in a USB flash Drive. The types and amount of the downloaded ISO files are depending on your needs.
5. Computers will be used to boot the USB flash Drive must support booting via USB flash Drive. Today almost all PCs already support this technology. For older computers that do not support booting via USB flash Drive, use a free boot manager Plop (www.plop.net) in the Ultimate Boot CD.
How many ISO file that can be supported for USB Installer?
Yumi support up to 50 ISO files and Multisystem support up to 100 ISO files.
Comparison between Yumi with Multisytem:
Yumi
URL: pendrivelinux.com/downloads/YUMI/YUMI-0.0.1.6.exe
GUI: yes
Base: Windows
Installation: offline
Multysistem
URL: liveusb.info/multisystem/install-depot-multisystem.sh.tar.bz2
GUI: yes
Base: GNU / Linux
Installation: online
I hope, you can use your USB flash drive as an USB installer and is not only to save your data.
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Awesome post! I install windows 7 from the USB drive, and its a lot faster
Great topic. I’m sure there are people who are really interested in your blog. Thanks for the help.
Helped me a lot! Thanks for guide. I don’t want to buy CD’s or DVD’s and burn them. More simple just install OS from USB.
To install the OS with the help of USB is a smart way to install the OS. I think it is very easy technique. USB is portable easily. We don’t need to CD or DVD drive.
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i am going to try this as soon as i get off of here sounds awsome will report back
This is actually really neat. I am assuming with a USB installer I could just store my program executables on the USB, and when I plugged it up it would start installing. This way I wouldn’t have to use a CD. That’s cool.
I keep ubuntu on my flash drive.
i have done this before to. nice share
have done this before
Great information! I hate installing software and OS using a CD it is too slow.
I install windows 7 from the USB drive, and its a lot faster. You just have to make sure to change the boot option to usb.
I’ve try to my PC .
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thanks for giving us such kind of informations
Is it always working for all Pentium IV?
Yes, so far it works on pentium IV.
Usually i install ubuntu linux from pen drive.
that is really new for me. think to try this later. USB installer help me easier.
thanks
Awesome post! I had no idea you could even do that.