How do I boot DSL as a live USB with a persistent overlay without unetbootin and...

This is my username · 08-30-2009, 02:25 PM

I need to boot Damn Small Linux as a live USB flash drive with a persistent overlay without using the program unetbootin. In addition to that I would like to know how to make this boot automatically and immediately upon turning on the computer without installing or changing my settings on windows (which I think you can accomplish by changing a file with a .cfg ending). I would also like to do this on windows if possible but I can do it on a CD copy of Damn Small Linux or an installed copy of Ubuntu.

BTW if you are curious, I am doing this on an Acer Aspire One AO751h: 1.33GHz Intel atom processor, 1GB RAM. The USB flash drive has 1GB of storage.

Damn Small Linux website: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

linus72 · 08-30-2009, 03:48 PM

Whats up This is my username?!
Welcome to LQ

First, DSL doesn't use the persistent overlay
thats fedora 11 I believe....?

Anyway, Hell yeah we do it without Unetbootin.

Now, I need to know about these thingss?

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In addition to that I would like to know how to make this boot automatically and immediately upon turning on the computer without installing or changing my settings on windows (which I think you can accomplish by changing a file with a .cfg ending).

so, do you have windows installed as the only OS on PC and DSL installed only to USB?

Please explain how you put dsl on usb and exactlt what you wanna do?