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Old 04-21-2017, 07:33 AM   #1
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Smile Which distros have live USB Isos with built in WiFi support that are persistent?


What's in your pocket? I have slax but I'm greedy.

Make my next journey to McDonald's memorable. Let's have some fun.
 
Old 04-21-2017, 09:24 AM   #2
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What's in your pocket? I have slax but I'm greedy.

Make my next journey to McDonald's memorable. Let's have some fun.
I have a 16G USB key E2B (Easy2Boot) loaded with TinyCore and Core Plus, Mint, Mint-DE, Elementary, Lubuntu, VSIDO, Sparky, Puppy, Q4OS, and a dozen or so others: many in two versions (32-bit and 64-bit). They all seem to work on my laptop. (YMMV)

I also have two little old 8G: one loaded with AV and security distos, the other with maintenance and recovery tools (partmagic, clonezilla, etc.)

I do NOT have slax, freebsd, gentoo, old slackware, CentOS, Oracle, RHEL, Scientific, or KNOPPIX on there, although some of those are known to work with E2B. KNOPPIX is the original LiveCD master (LiveDVD now) and is a great live-iso image on which you can rely.

I used to use other tools (Sardu was one) but have pretty much standardised on E2B because the ISO image sits on the USB device unchanged. I can copy it off, burn to a CD or DVD, and boot from that (or copy the images off to provide them for someone who needs them urgently) without jumping through hoops.

E2B also supports Windows ISO images, but I no longer need those often. There are a very few useful tools (ReactOS and KolibriOS for two) that I do not carry and that are not well supported by E2B. If you carry those, I would like to know more.

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Old 04-21-2017, 09:59 AM   #3
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Old 04-21-2017, 01:14 PM   #4
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AntiX - http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
 
Old 04-21-2017, 02:54 PM   #5
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Almost every modern OS has support for wifi built into the kernel. Almost every distro can be made to run from a usb or cd/dvd. Some allow you to boot to cd/dvd and save persistence to usb or floppy.

I'd just make a real install of your favorite distro and use it on a usb. You can't easily update an iso type install.
 
Old 04-21-2017, 04:24 PM   #6
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Old 04-23-2017, 03:02 AM   #7
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Kolibri.iso boots just fine for me on E2B.
ReactOS does not support USB booting any more - so it won't work on any USB drive.
https://www.reactos.org/wiki/LiveUSB
 
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Old 05-03-2017, 01:59 PM   #8
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Well. Slackware Live Edition of course.

http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:...t_to_usb_stick (documentation)
http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/tag/live/ (blog posts)
http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...lackware-live/ (stable release of Slackware as a Live OS)
http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/ (custom variants with other DE's like Mate, Plasma5, Gnome3 etc).
 
Old 05-03-2017, 03:11 PM   #9
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P.S. If you look for them on distrowatch, you will find MANY WIFI powerful distributions with Live-CD or Live-DVD images.
 
  


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