Linux on USB questions

[TheBlackParrot]

what's in Change boot mode setting?

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[th3coolst3r]

When I changed it to off, I rebooted the pc and looked for the drive, not their, so I turned it on again

[pch]

i have this same laptop. turn off uefi and set it to legacy boot, i dont know why but when its set to UEFI it wont even detect the usb as bootable

[th3coolst3r]

K I'm on change boot mode, but the only thing I can do is change the secure boot on and off, I don't know how to turn off uefi

[FelipeO_O]

I'm using currently Slitaz ( http://www.slitaz.org/en/) in my pendrive, because it's more small (477mb size my pendrive).

It runs fine with my wifi adapter (The kernel couldn't adapt my integral wifi card)

[th3coolst3r]

I'm using currently Slitaz ( http://www.slitaz.org/en/) in my pendrive, because it's more small (477mb size my pendrive).

It runs fine with my wifi adapter (The kernel couldn't adapt my integral wifi card)

k i just put Slitaz onto the usb, i will now try this

[th3coolst3r]

Didn't work

[pch]

K I'm on change boot mode, but the only thing I can do is change the secure boot on and off, I don't know how to turn off uefi

you have to change it from the BIOS

you can get to that by pressing F2 when its booting

[th3coolst3r]

you have to change it from the BIOS

you can get to that by pressing F2 when its booting

k I'm in, I went to boot and I see uefi and legacy, but I can't choose legacy for some damn reason

[shitlord]

do you have a CD drive

[th3coolst3r]

do you have a CD drive

no

[Swat 3]

Do not go to boot manager, look for something that says "load order" or "boot load order". (keep secure boot off)

[Becquerel]

I dont see why you would be using Kali, Kali is used for entry testing, not every day use

[The Murderous Cop]

Get Porteus
it's literal every day use and it's loving sweet

[Pecon]

Here is the easiest way to properly make a bootable USB drive with essentially any Linux distro.

Requirements: Two medias, one to install from and one to install to. So either two flash drives or a flash drive and disk.

1: Write all the installation CD files to the first media (the CD if you're using that).
2: Plug in both medias into the computer, and boot from the installation one. This should bring up the installer for that distro.
3: Go through the setup like normal, but choose the second media (the flash drive that you are not installing from) as the target disk to install to.
4: Do the installation normally
5: Shut down and unplug the install media flash drive, leaving the one you installed linux to plugged in.
6: Boot from that flash drive. You're done.


Also if you're a noob at linux in general; just install Ubuntu or Linux Mint or something on that tier that is more user friendly. Kali is designed for entry testing and maining it is sorta dumb unless you actually know at all what you're going to try to do. You can install most of the software available on Kali (and a lot more that isn't readily available on Kali) to pretty much any other popular distro.