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Linux on USB with / mounted on Pendrive?

I'm wondering how to install Linux Ubuntu/Mint on Pendrive so that / (root fs) is mounted directly on USB in RW mode ? I think that most installers simply copy the installation CD onto pendrive. And ...
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Can I use a USB drive of Ubuntu created on Mac with a PC?

I am trying to create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu with my iMac as a holiday present for my brother, who is on a PC. Will my bootable USB work on his computer if I create it on my Mac?
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USB boot and newer BIOS and firmware

Is it safe to say that most newer (x64 2010+) desktop BIOS from major manufacturers can be configured for USB boot? I'd like to be able to boot from USB for GParted 10, Windows 7 pro, and Ghost 2003+ ...
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Burg/Grub2 boot WinPE

How can I boot WinPE from burg/grub2 with a drive formatted by fbinst? The WinPE files are located on the unhidden part of the drive. What should the menu entry look like?
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How to copy local files from NTFS drives after booting to a USB key or Linux CD

Now that I have my bootable USB key set up with all kinds of tools via Yumi (see this question), how do I copy off local files? I'm am a Linux novice, trying to rescue files from a Windows computer. ...
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Configure bootloader for usb bootable Linux?

I've installed CentOS 5.5 64-bit on an external WD 500GB HDD. I went through the installation setup, and formatted the external HDD normally. (100M /boot, 250GB /, 248GB /tmp , 2.8GB swap). I also ...
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what can i do from grub rescue?

i had my hard drive dual booting and was trying to delete one partition in gparted but i think it had grub on it. now i cant boot anything. i can get into the BIOS but i cant boot from USB, the screen ...
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How to Make USB Pen Drive Bootable? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Make a bootable pen drive for windows? Hi, I want to update BIOS of my pc and i got the bios update exe from Intel official site.i copied it in to my usb pen drive and ...