How to install USB MooLux Live from Windows

Posted in How To's by Shafkat Shahzad, M.Sc - Senior Technical Content Manager on July 22nd, 2009

Welcome to the tutorial guide. The tutorial guide will provide instructions and advise to the user on how to install MooLux Linux LIVE to a USB Flash Drive using Windows. It is good to know about MooLux. MooLux is a Live USB Linux distribution based on Slackware that utilizes the KDE desktop environment. MooLux is a portable operating system

USB Moolux Flash Drive creation essentials:
It is important to know the USB Moolux Flash Drive creation essentials. These are as provided below:
- 1GB or Larger USB Flash Drive (Fat16 or Fat32 formatted)
- Windows XP PC to create the MooLux USB Drive
- HP USB Format Tool
- MooLux Zip

Linux Mint Flash Drive creation process:
Now, let’s go through the Linux Mint Flash Drive creation process.
- first of all, please download the HP USB format tool and format your Thumb Drive as Fat16 or Fat32
- Now please download the MooLux zip
- After the download, please extract the contents of the Zip to your USB device
- After successful extraction, please navigate to the boot directory on the USB device
- Now, click bootinst.bat to install the grub loader and make the device bootable
- In the end, please reboot your PC and set your system BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot booting from the USB memory stick

If you have followed the advise and instructions as presented in this tutorial guide, then you will have successfully installed the MoonLux Linux to a USB Flash Drive,

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