{"id":915,"date":"2011-09-19T01:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T06:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=915"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:18:44","slug":"running-linux-mint-from-a-usb-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2011\/09\/running-linux-mint-from-a-usb-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Linux Mint from a USB Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I use PenDriveLinux to install Linux Mint on a 1GigaByte USB stick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had a little spare time one weekend, so&#8230; I had seen several people mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/\">Linux Mint<\/a>. (I can&#8217;t seem to remember if it is Linux Mint or Mint Linux or even Lint Minux, but that is another matter.) So, I tried to install it on a USB stick. I had a 1GigaByte USB lying around that someone had given me. That is usually not enough space to run a Linux version, but I tried it anyways.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The key was going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pendrivelinux.com\/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3\/\">PenDriveLinux<\/a>. They have a universal USB installer that I downloaded. Then I downloaded the Linux Mint 11 LXDE from Mint&#8217;s site. Then I ran the Unversal USB Installer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below is a screen shot of the Mint Linux running on a Dell Latitude E6500 portable computer (2 years old). Wow. This was really easy. Aside from the half hour download of the Linux distribution, the process required ten minutes. And I am not a system administrator for either Windows or Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus points &#8211; the distribution and installation can use my 750GigaByte external hard drive (Seagate FreeAgent Go).<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, I wrote this blog post while in Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_916\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-916\" title=\"Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screenshot-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot of the Linux Mint screen<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I use PenDriveLinux to install Linux Mint on a 1GigaByte USB stick. I had a little spare time one weekend, so&#8230; I had seen several people mention Linux Mint. (I can&#8217;t seem to remember if it is Linux Mint or Mint Linux or even Lint Minux, but that is another matter.) So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,39,3],"tags":[200,161,126],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-linux","category-technology","tag-computing","tag-linux","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}