Linux Solutions

Welcome to the tutorial guide. The guide will provide a user with advise and guidance on how to install Kiwi linux to a Flash drive.

Before we go ahead with the process of installing Kiwi Linux to a flash drive, it is a good idea to know what Kiwi Linux is. Kiwi is a free operating system based on Ubuntu Linux primarily targeted at users in Romania. The project comes on a single CD that can be used both as a live CD and for installing on the hard drive. Kiwi Linux is a modified Ubuntu live CD for the i386 architecture. It includes Romanian and Hungarian localisations, multimedia codecs, encrypted DVD support, Flash and Java plugins for Firefox, PPPoE GUI for accessing local Internet services (Clicknet and RDS) and write support for NTFS partitions.

Let’s see what is required in order to go ahead with the process of installing Kiwi Linux.

Windows PC to perform conversion
Kiwi 9.04 ISO
2GB or larger USB flash drive
KW904p.exe

If you are interested in creating a Kiwi USB Flash Drive using Windows, then please follow steps as provided below:

- first of all, please download and run KW904p.exe, extracting the contents to your PC. Please note that a KW904p folder is automatically created.
- now, please download the Kiwi 9.04 torrent and proceed to download the ISO using the favorite bittorrent client
- the next step is to place the kiwi-9.04.iso in the KW904p folder on the PC
- From the KW904p folder, please click KW904.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
- Please remember that once the script has finished, you need to restart the PC
- after restarting the PC, please set the BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device
- finally, please save the changes and reboot

now you will be able to boot from the Live USB Kiwi 9.04.

If you had followed all the steps as provided in this tutorial guide then you will be able to install Kiwi Linux on a flash drive