How do I identify the distro on a cd, DVD or USB drive without booting it?
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How do I identify the distro on a cd, DVD or USB drive without booting it?
I have a number of USB Memory Sticks and some CD/DVDs with either Live or Installed Distros on. If I plug them in which File/Folder do I look at to identify the Distro and Version etc without having to boot them.
Searching /etc would be true for an installed distribution but not necessarily for a live version. There could be a readme file that contains the distribution/version. For some it isn't obvious by just mounting the drive/CD and looking at the contents.
Most live distributions use a squashfs image for their filesystem, so if the advice given above doesn't work just install squashfs-tools and mount the image, the look for /etc/os-release (virtually any distribution nowadays has tat file).
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