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Timmy

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Timmy LiveUSB Installer

This project aims to create an easy LiveUSB (thumbdrive) installer for one or more lightweight Linux distributions.

Parted Magic & Slax

Parted Magic is a live distribution which allows users to partition hard drives. It also offers other applications, such as Partition Image, TestDisk etc.

Slax is a lightweight, portable live distribution based on Slackware.

Versions supported:

Parted Magic 3.4
Slax 6.0.9

How to install

Windows

  1. Grab Timmy here.
  2. Download Parted Magic USB here.
  3. Download Slax USB here.
  4. Unzip Timmy to a new folder.
  5. Place both the Parted Magic and Slax USB archives (which you downloaded earlier) in the same directory where you unzipped Timmy to.
  6. Run install.bat and follow on-screen instructions.

Linux

  1. Grab Timmy here.
  2. Download Parted Magic USB here.
  3. Download Slax USB here.
  4. Unzip Timmy to a new folder.
  5. Place both the Parted Magic and Slax USB archives (which you downloaded earlier) in the same directory where you unzipped Timmy to.
  6. Run install.sh and follow on-screen instructions.

Note: Since the Linux syslinux executable cannot set a partition as active (bootable), you may encounter problems booting from your thumbdrive, especially if the boot flag has not been set before. Here's how to fix the problem:

  1. Run sudo fdisk /dev/sdb (where /dev/sdb refers to the device name of your thumbdrive)
  2. Type a to set active partition.
  3. Select the correct partition to set the boot flag (e.g. if the partition you want is /dev/sdb1 then type 1)
  4. Finally, type w to write the changes to the drive

How to uninstall

Windows

  1. Unzip Timmy to a new folder (if you still have the files unzipped from a previous installation, then skip this step).
  2. Run uninstall.bat and follow on-screen instructions.

Linux

  1. Unzip Timmy to a new folder (if you still have the files unzipped from a previous installation, then skip this step).
  2. Run uninstall.sh and follow on-screen instructions.

Support

linuxNUS Forums

Distribution

Please email linuxNUS if you would like to redistribute this. Give us the credit so we know our work is loved =)

Disclaimer

This installer is provided for you to use as it is. linuxNUS is not responsible for any loss of data due to usage of this installer. Remember to backup your data before attempting any installation.

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