


This utility even purports to do USB stick style installers for Windows Vista, 7 and 8, in case you want to skip the disc on those as well. If you have a thumb drive handy that is at least 4GB or larger in size, Universal USB Installer can come to the rescue with its special superpower: the ability to write ISO files of popular Linux distributions to a thumb drive for booting and installation onto the destination hard disk.

Whether I’m going to perform a clean install or merely use the Live boot portion to give the OS a test drive, there’s one thing I don’t really like to do, and that’s buying DVD-Rs and burning ISO images to them, only to then turn the disc into a new coaster for my drink when I get bored of it. Matt Nawrocki shows you just what you need for a bootable Linux distro written to a USB thumb drive.Īs an IT guru, I like to play around with multiple Linux-based operating systems. Review: Universal USB Installer for Windows
