Boot gOS from USB Drive Experience

Posted by Planet Malaysia on December 5, 2008

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Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick really make our life easy especially for IT administrator. Imaging you can easily carry Linux System in your pocket.

I was managed to install gOS on a USB flashdrive referring to “USB gOS install from Windows” tutorial. The installation guide are pretty simple:

1. Download and run gOSConvert3.exe, a gOS folder is created
2. Download the gOS ISO and place the ISO in your gOS folder
3. From your gOS folder, click fixgOS2.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
4. Reboot your PC and select your USB device from the Boot Menu or system BIOS and proceed to boot gOS from your USB device

Booting up a gOS with USB drive on a physical machine only took me about 2 minutes but it never boot up gOS or SLES 10 using Sun xVM VirtualBox.

Referring to guide “How to boot from USB in Sun xVM VirtualBox” from Shashank Shekhar’s Blaawg. Too bad, VMware Workstation 6.5.1 DO NOT support booting from USB drive.

a) Create a new Virtual “Machine”
b) Connect USB disk to your machine
USB detect

c) Enable “Mount Floppy Drive“, and from the drop-down list in “Host Floppy Device”, select your USB drive’s Drive Letter
Floopy Images

d) Connect USB drive
Enable USB
Damm!

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2 Responses to “Boot gOS from USB Drive Experience”

  1. Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool | ddm on December 7th, 2008 11:49 am

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  2. Shashank Shekhar on December 31st, 2008 2:56 am

    Hi

    There are a couple of things I forgot to mention in my post (the one you referred to):

    a) Check if you have the latest xVM version. Since I downloaded the absolute latest version, things might look different on older releases.

    b) In your case, check if you’re giving gOS sufficient RAM in the Virtual Machine settings. gOS if I recall takes a LOT of RAM, so see if you can spare it some 700-odd MB of virtual RAM to decompress the OS, and run the applications.

    Hope that helps
    Cheers
    ~Shashank
    http://neothebrute.blogspot.com

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