liveusb-creator

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liveusb-creator

The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives.

Features

  • Works in Windows and Linux!
  • Completely non-destructive install. There is no need to deal with formatting or partitioning your USB key.
  • Supports automatically downloading various Fedora releases, as well as Sugar on a Stick!
  • Automatically detects all of your removable devices
  • Persistent storage creation. This lets you to allocate extra space on your USB stick, allowing you to save files and make modifications to your live operating system that will persist after you reboot. This essentially lets you carry your own personalized Fedora with you at all times.
  • Checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that you've downloaded the correct bits
  • Translated in many languages

Testimonials

"As a non-Linux person, Live-USB Creator has improved the 
 quality of my life measurably!" --Dr. Arthur B. Hunkins

Download

Warning: There are virus-infected copies of the Windows liveusb-creator floating around various download sites on the internet. Only download the Windows liveusb-creator from this page!

Windows

  • Windows installer: liveusb-creator-3.11.7-setup.exe (9M) (ChangeLog).
    • SHA1: 3e874c62c576a90a18f060ff87f5a8d974a9ac75

Linux

For Fedora, simply use Add/Remove? software and search for liveusb-creator and install it or do

# yum install liveusb-creator

Source

  • liveusb-creator-3.11.7.tar.bz2 (178K) (sha1: ce77dbd9be99ed05ed5cca2d4989e5157183c437).

Latest News

2012-06-12 :: v3.11.7

  • Support downloading Fedora 17 and the latest Sugar on a Stick releases
  • Fixed the automatic download locations
  • Fixed a unicode bug with certain device labels

2011-11-8 :: v3.11.6

  • Support downloading the new Fedora 16 release
  • Always set the device label to LIVE (ticket #800)
  • Fixed a bug that occurs on Windows when installed to a non-default location (ticket #473)
  • Fixed a bug that occurs on Linux when extlinux is missing or an old version
  • Fixed a couple of bugs when using fully formatted devices without partitions
  • Updated win32 syslinux to 4.04
  • A couple of other minor bugfixes on Linux

2011-05-24 :: v3.11.1

  • Support downloading the new Fedora 15 release

2011-04-25 :: v3.11.0

  • Ported from HAL to UDisks
  • Support ext4
  • Some minor bugfixes in the gui

2011-01-24 :: v3.10.0 Windows release

  • Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package, if neccessary, to get the liveusb-creator running on more versions of Windows.

2011-01-05 :: v3.9.3 Windows release

  • Update to syslinux 4.03 in our Windows package, which works with Fedora 14
  • Rebuilt with Python 2.7 and the latest PyQt4/pywin32/py2exe/NSIS
  • Determine if we are running with admin privs, and warn otherwise
  • Fix how and where we put our error logs
  • Update our list of Fedora & Sugar releases
  • Download releases to Downloads or My Documents
  • Various Windows path-related fixes
  • Translation updates

2010-11-25

  • See our FAQ for information on using Fedora 14 live images from F13/F12!

2010-06-15 :: v3.9.2

  • Offer the latest Fedora & Sugar releases
  • Some minor bug improvements
  • Translation updates

2009-12-08 :: v3.9.1

  • Offer the latest Sugar on a Stick
  • Better handling of invalid filesystem issues
  • Fixed some unicode-related bugs

2009-12-01 :: v3.9

  • Shiny new installer using the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, thanks to Wade Brainerd
  • More robust partition handling
  • Workaround bugs with Kingston DataTraveller? USB sticks
  • Fix a broken URL for the Sugar on a Stick beta
  • Fix a bug when selecting an ISO without a device present
  • Translation updates

2009-11-08 :: v3.8.7

  • Add the new Fedora 12 release!
  • Add the stable version of Sugar on a Stick back (#627)

2009-11-07 :: v3.8.6

  • Add the F12 beta release
  • Update to the latest Sugar on a Stick v2 beta snapshot (#522240)
  • Make our automatic device detection code more robust (#519134)
  • Don't utf8 encode our unicode strings from exceptions (#471367)
  • Make our Linux device detection more robust (#517053)
  • Intel Mac EFI directory preparation (#526825)
  • Make our windows device detection more robust
  • Add a --liveos-checksum option, which takes the checksum of all files, and
  • then generate a checksum of the checksums
  • Add a --device-checksum options, which generates the checksum of the entire
  • device.
  • Add a --hash option for configuring the hash for the above checksum features
  • Make the LiveUSBCreator.bootable_partition method a little more robust
  • Be sure to close the isofile when we're done with it
  • Some Windows-specific optimizations & fixes
  • Fix a bug with the overlay size on sticks with not much free space
  • Handle device paths containing spaces when running extlinux (#490843)
  • Remove some duplicate po files (#516841)
  • Many translation updates

View past news...

Press

  • E-Week - Best Gadgets and Apps for IT Pros
  • Lifehacker - The Most Popular Linux Posts of 2008
  • Lifehacker - Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive
  • Featured in the "Put Linux in your pocket" article in the Jan 2009 Issue #114 of the Linux Format magazine
  • Wired.com - New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements
  • ZDNet White Papers - Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick
  • Featured in Applied Networking Labs by Dr. Randall Boyle

Screenshots

  • Screenshots of the liveusb-creator in action.

Problems?

  • Read the FAQ
  • Checkout existing issues for your issue
  • Create a new ticket

Development

  • See the Developers Guide
  • Subscribe to the liveusb-creator mailing list
  • Read the API and source code
  • Help work on existing issues

Authors

  • Luke Macken
  • Kushal Das

Forks

  • Tails USB Installer
  • Mandriva Seed
  • Sidux liveusb-creator

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