Making your custom ISO bootable

Before starting this section, please ensure you have completed the previous one, "Creating a custom Linux ISO" or download our thin client OS from here. In this section, we will make our newly created ISO/ZIP bootable!

Making your ISO bootable from Windows

1. To make your ISO bootable using windows, first transfer your ISO/ZIP off of your Linux system and onto a Windows system.

2. Once you have done this, unzip the ISO/ZIP using an archive manager such as 7zip, or just using windows explorer if you have a ZIP file.

3. Once unzipped, you should have a folder with the name that you set as your live kit name in the config file.

4. Copy this folder to your USB device. Now we just need to make the USB bootable.

5. Make sure that the only folder on your USB storage device is named the same as your live kit name, inside of this folder should only be boot, changes, modules and 01-core.sb. If you have any other files or folders on the USB remove them so there are no conflicts. While you are in here, make note of what drive letter your USB drive is assigned to.

6. Open CMD as an administrator and type D:\ replace the D with whatever letter your USB has been assigned

7. Now run: cd livename\boot and click enter

8. Finally, run bootinst.bat and click enter. The programs should copy some files and say finished once it is done.

9. Now that you have done that the USB should be ready to boot!

10. Safely remove the USB device and plug it into your system while it's shut down.

11. Enter the BIOS for your system and choose the USB device as the main boot drive.

12. Once set, the device should boot into your custom OS. Given that you have the perch value set in your config, your data wil persist on the device and anything you installed before using Linux Live should already be present.