List of tools to create Live USB systems
This is a list of utilities for creating Live USB.
Overview
Multiboot means that the tool allows multiple systems on the USB stick, as well as a bootloader on the USB stick to choose which system to load at boot time.
| Name | Developer | Licensing | Maintained? | Multiboot? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squirrel USB | Michael Kearney | Free software | Yes | Yes |
| WinToUSB | The EasyUEFI Development Team | Free for personal use[1] | Yes | No |
| cd2usb | hacktolive | No[2] | No | |
| DasBoot[3] | SubRosaSoft | Proprietary software | No | No |
| dd | Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp[4] | Free software | Yes | No |
| dd for windows | Chrysocome and John Newbigin | GPLv2* | Yes | No |
| Debian live-magic | Debian | Free software | Yes | No |
| Easy2Boot | SteveSi | Free software | Yes | Yes |
| Fedora Live USB creator | Fedora Project | Free software | Yes | No |
| flash-knoppix | Knoppix | Free software | Yes | No |
| FUSBi - Free USB Installer | Ali Gunduz | Free software | No[5] | No |
| Image Writer for Windows | Justin Davis | Free software | Yes | No |
| Partition Assistant | AOMEI Technology | Free software | Yes | No |
| ISOmorphic | Check Point Software Technologies | Proprietary software | Yes | No |
| Linux Live Kit[6] | Tomáš Matějíček[7] | Free software | Yes | No |
| LinuxLive USB Creator | Thibaut Lauzière | Free software | Yes | No |
| LiveUSB Install | Krasimir Stefanov (lokster) | Free software | Yes[8] | Yes |
| Mac Linux USB Loader | SevenBits | Free software | Yes | No |
| mkusb | sudodus | Free software | Yes | No |
| MultiSystem - LiveUSB MultiBoot[9] | Fabre François[10][11] | GPL v2+[11] | Yes[12] | Yes |
| make-live-device.sh | puredyne | Free software | No[13] | No |
| Mandriva Seed | Mandriva | Free software | Yes | No |
| MultiBootUSB[14] | sundar_ima | GPLv3 | Yes | Yes |
| Portable Linux[15] | ? | |||
| Refracta2usb | adapted for Refracta by Fsmithred[16] | GPLv3 | Yes | Yes |
| remastersys | Tony Brijeski | Free software | No[17] | No |
| Rufus | Pete Batard | GPLv3 | Yes | No |
| SARDU | Davide Costa | Free for personal use | Yes | Yes |
| SliTaz TazUSB | SliTaz | Free software | Yes | No |
| SUSE Studio ImageWriter | Matt Barringer | Free software | Yes | No |
| Ubuntu Live USB creator | Canonical Ltd | Free software | Yes | No |
| UNetbootin | Geza Kovacs | GPL v2+[18] | Yes | No |
| Universal USB Installer | Pen Drive Linux | Free software | Yes | No |
| USBWriter | Etienne Doms | Free software | Yes | No |
| Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool | Microsoft | Free software[19] | Yes | No |
| Windows To Go | Microsoft | Proprietary software | Yes | ? |
| WinSetupFromUSB | Iliya Taushanov | Free software | Yes | Yes |
| WiNToBootic | Mr. Jack | Free software | Yes | ? |
| WinToFlash | Novicorp | Free for personal use | Yes | Yes |
| WinUSB | colingille | Free software | Yes | ? |
| YUMI | pendrivelinux | Free software[20] | Yes | Yes |
| XBoot | shamurshamur | Free software | Yes | Yes |
| Name | Developer | Licensing | Maintained? | Multiboot? |
Operating system support
| Name | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | *BSD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| squirrel USB | Yes (host/target) | No | No | No |
| WinToUSB | Yes (host/target) | No | No | No |
| cd2usb | No | No | Yes | No |
| DasBoot | No | Yes | No | No |
| dd | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Debian live-magic | No | No | Yes | No |
| Easy2Boot | Yes | No | Yes (host/target) | No |
| Fedora Live USB creator | Yes (host) | No | Yes (host/target) | No |
| flash-knoppix | No | No | Yes | No |
| Free USB Installer | No | No | Yes | No |
| Image Writer for Windows | Yes (host) | No | Yes (target) | No |
| AOMEI Partition Assistant | Yes (host) | No | No | No |
| Linux Live Kit[21] | No | No | Yes | No |
| LinuxLive USB Creator | Yes (host/target) | No | Yes (target) | No |
| Live Linux USB Creator | No | Yes | No | No |
| LiveUSB Install | No | No | Yes | No |
| LiveUSB MultiBoot | No | No | Yes | No |
| Mac Linux USB Loader | No | Yes (host) | Yes (target) | No |
| make-live-device.sh | No | No | Yes | No |
| Mandriva Seed | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| mkusb | No | No | Yes (host / target depending on iso or img.[gx]z file) | No |
| MultiBootUSB | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Portable Linux | No | No | Yes | No |
| Refracta2usb | No | No | Yes | ? |
| remastersys | No | No | Yes | No |
| Rufus | Yes | No | Yes (target) | No |
| SARDU | Yes (host/target) | Yes (target) | Yes (host/target) | Yes (target) |
| SliTaz TazUSB | No | No | Yes | No |
| SUSE Studio ImageWriter | Yes (host) | No | Yes (host/target) | No |
| Ubuntu Live USB creator | No | No | Yes | No |
| UNetbootin | Yes (host) | Yes (host) | Yes (host/target) | Yes (target) |
| Universal USB Installer | Yes (host) | No | Yes (target) | No |
| USBWriter | Yes (host/target) | No | Yes (target) | ? |
| Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool | Yes | No | No | No |
| Windows To Go | Yes | No | No | No |
| WinSetupFromUSB | Yes (host/target) | No | Yes (target) | No |
| WiNToBootic | Yes | No | No | No |
| WinToFlash | Yes | No | Yes (target) | Yes (target) |
| WinUSB | Yes (target) | No | Yes (host) | No |
| YUMI | Yes (host/target) | No | Yes | ? |
| XBoot | Yes | No | No | No |
| Name | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | *BSD |
See also
- List of Linux distributions that run from RAM
- Image optimizer
- Multiboot Specification
- System Installer
References
- ↑ "WinToUSB Free Edition is for private, noncommercial, home computer use only" (WinToUSB Free License).
- ↑ "Last update: 24 August 2011".
- ↑ "SubRosaSoft Dasboot 2.0". Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ↑ "dd man page, Author".
- ↑ "FUSBi hasn't been updated for a few years now, and its free distro list is obsolete.".
- ↑ Linux Live Kit website
- ↑ Linux Live Kit by Tomáš Matějíček
- ↑ http://live.learnfree.eu/lang/en/
- ↑ "multisystem at Sourceforge".
- ↑ "LiveUsb.info Whois Record". Gandi.
- 1 2 "Install script".
#Mr Fabre François @frafa, E-Mail: liveusb@gmail.com En Français SVP !, http://liveusb.info/
- ↑ "François Fabre user profile". Ubuntu French users forum. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ↑ "puredyne announcement from the Puredyne developers".
- ↑ "Boot multiple live Linux distros from a usb flash drive". SourceForge. 2012-11-29.
- ↑ "No licensing or status information available".
- ↑ "Copied from snapshot2usb, David Hare (dzz) June 2011 ... adapted for Refracta by fsmithred February 2013 ..."
- ↑ "remastersys web page".
- ↑ "License and credits of UNetbootin".
- ↑ "License: GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)".
- ↑ YUMI is licensed under the GPL v2 as documented in the file YUMI-Copying.txt (GitHub mirror). The file "YUMI-Copying.txt" can also be found inside the source code archive available at the official YUMI website.
- ↑ Linux Live Kit website
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