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LiLi the Pretty and Easy to Use Linux Live USB Creator

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

May
22
2010

Paul is the one that normally post about Linux because he is the expert on it but I am going to steal his show today. I just found out about a software that works on Windows called Linux Live USB Creator or short for LiLi which is pretty interesting. There are quite a number of free applications such as UNetbootin that allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for many Linux distributions without burning a CD. After installing the linux distro into the USB flash drive, to test it you will have to boot up the computer using the USB flash drive and you won’t access to Windows environment.
create linux usb install
The only way to test a linux distro or rescue system disc is by using virtualization software such as VirtualBox. For computer users that are not so familiar on how to configure VirtualBox, LiLi has gone one step ahead by allowing you to launch a Linux Live directly in any windows without any configuration nor software installation on your hard drive. It uses a portable version of VirtualBox to achieve that and the best part is you don’t need to configure anything at all.


Run LiLi to extract the files are downloading. Then run LiLi USB Creator.exe which will open a pretty black graphical user interface with 5 steps. First step is to choose your USB flash drive. Make sure you use a flash drive and not an empty partition of your hard drive because that will cause your boot sector to get corrupted. Next, you can either select the ISO image if you have previously downloaded it, or select CD if you have it on a disc or click Download if you don’t have anything. A drop down list allows you to select your favorite linux distro to download. For persistence option in Step 3, it is useful to keep your preferences and data even after reboot but currently only works on Windows XP. Skip this part if you are on Vista or 7.

Creator Linux Live USB

Step 4, the first option allows you to hide created files on your USB stick. You get to also format the flash drive in FAT32. The third option will allow you to run the Linux Live in USB using a portable version of VirtualBox in Windows. Checking this option will download the portable version of VirtualBox at 63.9MB of size. It doesn’t need to download VirtualBox if you downloaded the Full Pack which contains the VirtualBox. Finally click the Create button to start installing the Linux Live into your USB flash drive.

After finished installation, you can either boot up the computer with your USB flash drive which will load the linux live or you can go to My Computer, open the drive letter of your pendrive which you will see a VirtualBox folder. Inside the VirtualBox folder, double click on Virtualize_This_Key.exe and it will run Linux inside Windows using VirtualBox.

backtrack 4 in USB virtualbox

LiLi currently supports 97 different types of Linux distros and it provides a huge convenience to anyone who is interested in learning how to use linux, how to fix unbootable windows computers using rescue cds, or even learning how to hack wireless networks such as backtrack.

[ Download Linux Live USB Creator ]


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    • katsumoto

      this takes the pain out,without rebooting or using virtual box!

    • Ram Agarwal

      Thanks a lot Reymond.

      Nice Post.

    • Sasa_RI

      Or you can us Mobalive_USB to run your Boot USB from QUEMU.
      This is a program from the creator of MoabLive CD.
      It is very lite. Just copy it to your USB and start it. It will automaticly run your USB in virtual window of QUEMU.
      No viruses or trojans. Iv been using it for every day testing.
      http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/

    • fouzi

      Nice Post

    • speak2rahuul

      well very nice post Raymond will post a reply after using this app.

    • Tarun

      Thankyou raymond,, Very helpfull post..

    • roy raay

      interesting writeup mate, thanks!

    • Sasa_RI

      Sorry Raymond,why have you removed my link for MobaLiveUSB?

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      I won’t want my readers to simply download any files from rapidshare which is not tested and analyzed by me. If they get infected, raymond.cc is to be blamed and not you. Pointing to the official website would be much better.

    • http://www.rebutia.com.my ihzam

      Thanx for the info. But have you try linux Mint? It such a good and friendly linux operating system.

    • vicky

      Tried it. But whatever iso I chose, it says that the distro is not present in the compatibility list, and it will try to apply the general settings. After installing to USB drive, when i reboot, it says “Boot error”.

      Any idea what it could be about?

    • http://www.techit.my Tech It

      great post. definitely going to try it. Linux rule!

    • S2K

      hey raymond
      nice post…

      any 1 who wants to have xp/vista interface on linux,try out zorin os…

    • Phil

      @ katsumoto May 22nd, 2010 at 3:14 pm 1
      this takes the pain out,without rebooting or using virtual box!

      Actually if you look carefully at the photo above it is in fact running on Sun Virtual Box. It’s just you didn’t have to configure Sun Virtual Box.

      Clearly you can configure Virtual Box as you can see it say’s Machine, and Devices. This will get folks with static IP’s and no DHCP pool up and running.

      Nice tool!

    • Motupa

      i tried this software out, but had a little problem acessing the extra functions on the usb in the right click menu, like it says on the website, because i have avira 10 free version installed, since it blocks the autorun file, so is there a workaround, or am i mixing something diffrerent with some thing else….?

    • Phil

      @Motupa May 22nd, 2010 at 9:53 pm

      Check your Avira | Extras | Configuration | Scanner | exceptions | click the little square field and add your autorun.inf in.

      Maybe–just maybe–it might let you bypass it and boot up.

    • norman

      great application and i just wanna try this one for me to know the program very well. keep up the good work raymond.

    • http://tridentcore.com tridentcore

      I’ve using LiLi for over 6 months, and it’s easy step make me love to it… Onlly in few mouse clicks you can enjoy the Linux Live USB.

      @Ihzam, you can try it.. Linux Mint is the best distro ever with pre-installed all required runtimes and all media codecs.

      You can play any media without problem and watching YouTube directly without downloading any required plugins anymore.

    • Gaz

      I tried this recently and everything works smoothly until it finishes and then a big screen opens from Sun saying that the downloaded version of VirtualBox is illegal. I tried downloading a legal copy and putting into the LiLi folder and deleting the previous (illegal) version but LiLi still goes ahead and downloads another copy of the illegal one and ignores the one I have put there. Pity !

    • http://www.ijemuel.com iJemuel

      Thanks Raymond.

      It’s very easy to hack WEP with Backtrack, and I think is a great OS to run.

    • Jodi

      Be aware with portable lili virtual box , may ur computer will formatted perfectly :< . I am not joke

    • swapnil

      thanks !
      Great help;

    • Danny

      First hallo,
      I have the problem that persistence does not work with “BackTrack 4 R1 Release” for me.
      Is this a now problem or is this only by me?
      But really a great programm with boot and virtualbox possibilities :)
      Thanks..

    • Assimylator

      I have tried 5 different distro’s from the drop down list and every one is corrupt according to this program(?). I think it is a waste of your time! It also tells you to ‘read log’ file it doesn’t create.

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