USB bootable OS - Which & How?

House

House

House

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I need make myself a bootable OS (usb stick) let me explain the situation.

I am currently away with work and while out and about they have remotely installed some rather loverly restrictions on my laptop. I can understand there reasons for some of them (Security) but some of them are just cruel (locking out media player? adding AVI files to the virus scanner? why?).

Things id like to be able to do that i no longer can would be:
Media files (divx/xvids) Watching and sharing to an xbox 360.
Torrents
Browsing
Share an internet connection to my Xbox.

Can someone help me out before i have to go out and buy another laptop just to get some entertainment.
 
Download unetbootin, download the iso of the distro you want to use and write it to the flash drive with unetbootin. You will then need to boot frrom the usb drive, maybe f10 or f12 during start of boot.
 
The Ubuntu live distro allows you to create a bootable USB.

Some media files can contain viruses which is probably why they have locked it down. They may also have locked down the USB port (they do in my place).

Personally I would not play around on a work machine. It's not worth losing your job over.
 
Anything that supports the fromiso= kernel cheatcode is easy to boot from USB. You just need to spend 30 mins with the syslinux wiki to figure it all out.
 
Surely this will only work if they have let the machine boot from USB?
If they have locked that down in the BIOS then I don't think there is anything you can do to get round that
 
1)install via wubi
2) Download latest holywood blockbuster
3) Company IT dept finds out
4) called into diciplinary meeting
5) Fired
6) Dole queue
7) Part-time job at ASDA.
 
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