I use a program called Rufus - it’ll make any media bootable and install the the OS to the destination drive. Easy to use with a flash drive - I’ve never tried using it to install an actual OS to the flash drive and booting from there, but I guess as long as the flash drive itself is bootable, I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t load the OS behind it. I used to fiddle with Linux back in the day (Mandrake, Red Hat, Mandriva, Kubuntu, Goblin, Xandros) but that was back when you had to manually partition the hard drive and name each one, and there were the usual command line routines and packages to pick out. My main monitor is a 32” flat panel, I guess the only thing holding me back is motivation and a KVM switch.
I think i had heard of that one before- I use Brasero in linux mint- with the flash drives, I think ya gotta use something like unetbootin to make it bootable, then set the boot priority to flash drive- not sure- I’ve always used CD’s and DVD’s which my computer was just set automatically to boot to- and i didn’t need to make them bootable like you have to with flash drives i believe?
Yeah, linux used to be a pain to deal with- I tried it back in the 90’s, wow! Back when i had 27k dialup internet connection lol- I hated it then- but these latest renditions like mint are awesome- pretty easy to use-