Absolute Live
Instructions on how to use the Absolute Live USB file
ZIP available for download
From Sourceforge
From Slackware.uk: AbsoluteLive-20220825.zip
AbsoluteLive-20220825.tar.xz
From Absolute Home: AbsoluteLive-20220825.zip
AbsoluteLive-20220825.tar.xz
ZIP available for download
From Sourceforge
From Slackware.uk: AbsoluteLive-20220825.zip
AbsoluteLive-20220825.tar.xz
From Absolute Home: AbsoluteLive-20220825.zip
AbsoluteLive-20220825.tar.xz
- Will only work on bios set to boot non-AHCI. Legacy. This is a limitatiion of the Linux Live Kit I used to create it. Make sure any bios SATA settings are legacy/ata, legacy ROM enabled, boot legacy before AHCI, etc.
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Does NOT feature an install option. This will run Absolute from the USB stick so you can check out the features,
-- but you would need to download the install ISO if you would like to get Absolute on your hard drive.
Create a LIVE USB stick for Absolute
Thank you for using Absolute!
Steps to make it bootable from your USB device are following:
On Windows:
-- That's it. Your USB device is now ready to boot Absolute.
Initial login for LIVE USB:
User: "root" password: "root"
On Linux:
-- That's it. Your USB device is now ready to boot Absolute.
I also have more detailed instructions for making the USB LIVE stick under Linux, involving gparted, if you wish to take a look aat those instructions here.
Initial login for LIVE USB:
User: "root" password: "root"
On Windows:
- Copy the entire /Absolute/ directory to your USB drive. If you are using Windows, you will get for example E:\Absolute\ You probably already did this - just make sure you are on your USB drive now and not on your local harddisk.
- Now navigate to directory /Absolute/boot/ on your USB drive. In Windows, it will be E:\Absolute\boot\ for example. Use explorer or any other file manager for this task.
- While you're in the boot directory, locate file bootinst.bat Run it by doubleclicking it. It will setup your USB to boot.
-- That's it. Your USB device is now ready to boot Absolute.
Initial login for LIVE USB:
User: "root" password: "root"
On Linux:
- Get your USB stick ready, I format mine to ext4
- Most Linux operating systems will mount USBs with the execute bit off...
So I unmount the newly-formatted USB stick, then remount it with upped permissions.
(I also tend to mount to /mnt/memory... don't ask me why :/ And /dev/sdf1 might not be your drive. Check that first. - umount /dev/sdf1
mount -o rw,exec /dev/sdf1 /mnt/memory - Untar to the path you put in above:
"tar -xf /usr/src/AbsoluteLive-20220825.tar.xz --strip-components=1 --directory /mnt/memory"
(It will take a little while, being over 3 GB.) - On the USB, navigate to /Absolute/boot
and run the script bootinst.sh
typing
"./bootinst.sh"
Or open a terminal:
"sh /mnt/memory/Absolute/boot/bootinst.sh"
-- That's it. Your USB device is now ready to boot Absolute.
I also have more detailed instructions for making the USB LIVE stick under Linux, involving gparted, if you wish to take a look aat those instructions here.
Initial login for LIVE USB:
User: "root" password: "root"