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We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons.

I want to create a bootable installer for Debian on a usb flash drive. I just wrote the debian-jessie.iso file to the device file using: Well that didn't work. The computer won't boot from it, I get a ...