Creating a Live USB stick with Kiwi

STICK BUILDER

Article from Issue 88/2008
Author(s):

The Kiwi image system lets you create bootable images for a variety of purposes. We’ll show you how to use Kiwi to create a Live USB stick.

The Kiwi image system is SUSE’s favorite entry in the recent pageant of Live Linux tools. Although Kiwi is very capable of creating an ordinary Live CD or DVD, you can also use Kiwi to generate other types of bootable images, such as Xen-based virtual images, USB stick images, and even PXE-based network boot images for thin clients. I decided to put Kiwi to work creating a bootable Linux USB stick.

Buy this article as PDF

Express-Checkout as PDF
Price $2.95
(incl. VAT)

Buy Linux Magazine

SINGLE ISSUES
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS
 
TABLET & SMARTPHONE APPS
Get it on Google Play

US / Canada

Get it on Google Play

UK / Australia

Related content

comments powered by Disqus