lts-docs/docs/usb/index.md

# The Mostly Harmless USB disk

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  <img src="/images/usb/top.png" width="540" align="left" />
  <figcaption>
    The answer to the ultimate free software problem: 
    "How do I liberate or fix a computer when I don't always have a bootable USB disk handy?"  
  </figcaption>
</figure>

More details about the MH-USB: <https://mostlyharmless.io/usb/>

## Operating Systems

By default, the following operating systems are available for live boot or
installation:

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### Alpine

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/alpine.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/alpine.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.alpinelinux.org/> 
- OS Image:
<https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.15.0-x86_64.iso> 
- Path on USB: `/OS/alpine-standard-3.15.0-x86_64.iso`

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### Debian GNU/Linux

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/debian.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/debian.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.debian.org>
- OS Image:
  <https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.2.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/debian-live-11.2.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso`

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### Devuan GNU+Linux

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/devuan.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/devuan.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.devuan.org>
- OS Image:
  <https://mirror.ungleich.ch/mirror/devuan/devuan_chimaera/desktop-live/devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso`

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### Fedora

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/fedora.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/fedora.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.getfedora.org>
- OS Image: <https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/35/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso` 

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### GNU Guix

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/guix.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/guix.png"> 

- Website: <https://guix.gnu.org>
- OS Image:
  <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.iso`

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### Haiku

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/haiku.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/haiku.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.haiku-os.org/>
- OS Image:
  <https://cdn.haiku-os.org/haiku-release/r1beta3/haiku-r1beta3-x86_64-anyboot.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/haiku-r1beta3-x86_64-anyboot.iso` 

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### LibreELEC

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/libreelec.png"> 

- Website: <https://libreelec.tv/>
- OS Image:
  <https://releases.libreelec.tv/LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0.1.img.gz>
- Path on USB: `/OS/LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.0.1.img`

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### Manjaro

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/manjaro.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/manjaro.png"> 

- Website: <https://manjaro.org/>
- OS Image:
  <https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.2.1/manjaro-kde-21.2.1-220103-linux515.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/manjaro-kde-21.2.1-220103-linux515.iso`

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### netboot.xyz

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/netboot.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/netboot.png"> 

- Website: <https://netboot.xyz>
- OS Image: <https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/netboot.xyz.iso`
  
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### Open Media Vault

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/openmediavault.png" width="250px">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/openmediavault.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.openmediavault.org/> 
- OS Image:
  <https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmediavault/files/5.6.13/openmediavault_5.6.13-amd64.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/openmediavault_5.6.13-amd64.iso`

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### OpenWRT

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/openwrt.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/openwrt.png"> 

- Website: <https://openwrt.org/>
- OS Image:
  <https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0/targets/x86/64/openwrt-21.02.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz>
- Path on USB: `/OS/openwrt-21.02.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.img`

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### Proxmox VE

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/proxmox.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/proxmox.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve>
- OS Image:
  <https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads/item/proxmox-ve-7-1-iso-installer>
- Path on USB: `/OS/proxmox-ve_7.1-2.iso` 

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### Qubes OS

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/qubes.png"> 
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/qubes.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.qubes-os.org/>
- OS Image:
  <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/qubes/iso/Qubes-R4.0.4-x86_64.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/Qubes-R4.0.4-x86_64.iso`

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### RaspberryPi OS

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/raspios.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.raspberrypi.com/>
- OS Image:
  <https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/images/raspios_lite_armhf-2021-11-08/2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.zip>
- Path on USB: `/RPi/2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.zip`
 
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### System Rescue

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/systemrescue.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/systemrescue.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.system-rescue.org/>
- OS Image:
  <https://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/9.00/systemrescue-9.00-amd64.iso/download>
- Path on USB: `/OS/systemrescue-8.06-amd64.iso`

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### Tails

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/tails.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/tails.png"> 

- Website: <https://tails.boum.org/>
- OS Image:
  <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/tails/stable/tails-amd64-4.26/tails-amd64-4.26.img>
- Path on USB: `/OS/tails-amd64-4.25.img`

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### Trisquel GNU/Linux

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/trisquel.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/trisquel.png"> 

- Website: <https://trisquel.info/>
- OS Image: <https://trisquel.info/en/download>
- Path on USB: `/OS/trisquel-mini_9.0.1_amd64.iso`

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### Ubuntu

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/icons/ubuntu.png">
<br>
<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/ubuntu.png"> 

- Website: <https://ubuntu.com/>
- OS Image:
  <https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.3/ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso>
- Path on USB: `/OS/ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso`

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## Tools & Programs

### The Raspberry Pi Imager

<img alt="image" src="/images/usb/screenshots/rpi-imager.png"> 

- Website: <https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/>
- Image: <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/imager/imager_amd64.AppImage>
- Path on USB: `/Tools/imager_amd64.AppImage`

### Ungoogled Chromium

- Website: <https://ungoogled-software.github.io/>
- Image:
  <https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/>
- Path on USB: `/Tools/ungoogled-chromium_91.0.4472.164-1.1.AppImage`