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Practical Linux Security Cookbook
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Practical Linux Security Cookbook

by Tajinder Kalsi
April 2016
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
276 pages
5h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a USB boot media

A USB boot media can be created on any USB media device that is formatted as ext2, ext3, or VFAT. Also, ensure that enough free space is available on the device, varying from 4 GB required for the transfer of a distribution DVD image, 700 MB in the case of a distribution CD image, or just 10 MB to transfer a minimal boot media image.

Getting ready

Before carrying out the steps, we need to have an image file of the Linux installation disk, which we can name boot.iso, and a USB storage device, as specified previously.

How to do it…

To create the USB boot media, we need to perform these commands as the root:

  1. Firstly, we need to install the syslinux boot loader by executing the following command on the USB storage device:
    syslinux ...
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