Guest El barto Posted November 2, 2007 Report Share Posted November 2, 2007 hi, i have a remastered livecd with some apps i want to use on a laptop that isn't mine. I have made a live USB as well, but the laptop won't let me boot from usb, so i boot with the cd and then choose the option "boot from usb". This is ok, it's very fast, BUT i need to write to the hard drive that has only a NTFS partition. In the boot options there is a "NTFS read/write" option, but then it won't use the USB and so everything is loaded from cd which is quite slow... is there a way to have both ? (boot from usb and ntfs write support ? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 (edited) Grub has an option to allow booting from USB drives, even if the BIOS does not allow it. However, it does work with some bios revisions, but not with all. A regular Linux distro cannot be installed on FAT32 or NTFS partition. The reason is (mainly) that these filesystems do not support soft or hard linking natively. However, there are a few Linux distros that are made in such a way that can be installed on a FAT32, or NTFS filesystem (I can mention Puppy Linux, which is very popular, very lighweight, and very ugly... :P ). Edited November 4, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest El barto Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 A regular Linux distro cannot be installed on FAT32 or NTFS partition. The reason is (mainly) that these filesystems do not support soft or hard linking natively. However, there are a few Linux distros that are made in such a way that can be installed on a FAT32, or NTFS filesystem (I can mention Puppy Linux, which is very popular, very lighweight, and very ugly... :P ). i know, i use puppy on another pc, actually this machine i'm writing on is running on puppy 2.16. I don't want to install MCN on the hard drive, i just want to save files on it. I have createda remastered live cd with kino and kdenlive for video editing and need to save the DV files i capture from Firewire to the NTFS hard drive, so i need write permissions on ntfs, but ALSO the ability to load MCN from USB . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts