Some will function as bootable drives and some will not. NOTE: Not all USB drives are created equally. Remember, you are looking for live bootable images usually in the. If you’re experimenting, Google these distros: Moblin, Fedora 10, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Mandriva. REMEMBER: You need a USB drive large enough to hold the image contents. WARNING! Performing these steps will completely erase the contents of your USB drive.
img formats.įor these formats, here’s how I create a bootable USB drive using OS X and a couple of terminal commands. The images I use most frequently come in either. I also have a problem keeping up with my external USB CD drive.
Instead of burning CD images, I have found that bootable USB drives are faster and more reliable. I frequently experiment with live images of other OSs and install them on my Acer Aspire One netbook (I’ve since settled on PepperMintOS). retroCombs PlaylistĬommodore Plus/4 Series HOWTO: Create bootable USB drive on Mac OS X Blog posts and video from Steven as he “COMBS” through the minutia to discover tech, retro-computing, physical computing, gadgets and sci-fi.
