The Universal USB Installer is very easy to use. It even supports Dr.Web Live CD Scanner, SliTaZ Cooking, Ultimate Boot CD, and more. The updated full list of supported distribution is available at the developer’s page.

Universal USB Installer at this moments supports a huge number of Linux distributions, including both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and sysadmin or technicians favorites like Backtrack, GParted, DBAN, Clonezilla, OphCrack, System Rescue CD, etc to name a few. What I meant when I said “persistent storage”? It means that you’ll actually have some permanent storage space in your flash drive to save things like your files and preferences, instead of having a clone of your disc image in your flash drive. In my previous articles, I covered two softwares, UNetbootin and Multiboot USB Menu that helps me to make the distros ready to be booted directly off my USB flash device.Īnother, very good utility that helps me create persistent storage on my flash drive is Pendrive Linux’s Universal USB Installer. This saves me time as I don’t have to first configure the virtual machine and install the Linux distros to test it. But for those Linux distributions that offers Live CD/DVD option, I use my USB flash drive to test them live. Most of the time, to test the other operating system and distributions, I use VirtualBox or VMware Player to virtualize them. I triple boot my system with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu but I also like to test other Linux distributions.

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