More information on how and why to do this can be found here. Please note that if Porteus is installed on a FAT32 partition (almost all flash drives are formatted with a FAT32 filesystem by default) and you want your changes to persist between reboots, you must use a save.dat file. After this everything else is done for you and you should be left with a USB that boots into porteus.Ī NOTE ABOUT SAVING YOUR CHANGES IN PORTEUS: You will be asked to choose your USB drive and you porteus tarball. Step 3: Burn the ISO image Firstly, plug in your USB stick and do following steps depends on which operating system you have. All data stored in USB will be cleared So it important make a backup first. Your Porteus tarball must be named exactly as it appears in the list otherwise you will not see it when searching your files through the program. Step 2: Backup Creating boot-able USB installer will format your USB stick. Once you have these you simply double click on the Universal-USB-Installer-x.x.x.x.exe and follow the prompts and choose Porteus from the list.

Windows XP/Vista/7 to create the USB (Win 98/2K WILL NOT Work!).

Universal-USB-Installer-x.x.x.x.exe ( get it here).

The following is a list of what you will need in order to set up porteus on your USB: iso file or you can create a Gzip tarball from existing porteus files using a free application such as peazip. You will need to have downloaded the porteus. Freeware ISO burning software download, reviewed by Felix Cheng.

Using the Universal Linux USB Installer from Pendrive Linux to Install Porteus to USBĪlthough installing Porteus to a USB device is a fairly simple procedure, if you are having troubles then perhaps this tool is the answer.

Universal iso to usb