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VirtyDrive

Cross-Platform Linux drive creator, VirtyDrive setups your Linux isos on USB Drives, works on Windows, OSX and Linux.

Handy-Dandy tool for booting different Linux distros from USB Drives. Currently supports TOP-10 DistroWatch plus 2 distros for the RapsberryPI Project

Name Version Arch Porpuse
Linux Mint 17.3 64-bit Desktop
Debian 8 64-bit Desktop
Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit Desktop
Open SUSE 42.1 64-bit Desktop
Fedora 24 64-bit Desktop
Manjaro 16.06 64-bit Desktop
Majeia 6 64-bit Desktop
CentOS 7 64-bit Server
ArchLinux 2016.04.01 64-bit Multi
ElementaryOS 0.3.2 64-bit Desktop
Noobs 1.9.0 ARM Desktop
Rasbian 8.4 ARM Multi

Note that this is a live list so it will be update from time to time depending on distroswatch stats.

Virty will download the selected distro and write it to a USB/SD-Card Drive selected. If you have a iso file of a different distro you can also write it the same way.

VirtyDrive is based on electron framework try latest version, open a terminal and:

  1. user$ mkdir development; cd development
  2. user$ git clone https://github.com/Brunux/virtydrive.git
  3. user$ cd virtydrive
  4. user$ npm install this will install all dependencies.
  5. user$ sudo electron virty-app/ why sudo? Writing to /devs needs elevated privileges.
  6. test it.

Weekend build

This is the first build, so issues are expected please if you find one fill it in we will try to fix it asap.

Be aware, the way the iso is downloaded consumes lot of RAM memory (the size of the iso file) there is a WIP to fix it.

Download Linux x64 run instructions:

  1. user@LinuxBox$ tar -xzvf virtydrive-linux-x64.tar.gz
  2. user@LinuxBox$ cd virtydrive-linux-x64
  3. user@LinuxBox$ sudo ./virtydrive

Download Windows x64 run instructions:

  1. Uncompress the file.
  2. Go to the new created directory.
  3. Identify virtydrive.exe right click and select run as administrator.

Download OSX darwin run instructions:

  1. not yet tested feedback needed...

If you want to contribute to the project (hope so! :) please:

  1. Fork our repo.
  2. Code.
  3. Code.
  4. Make PR.

There is WIP for the unit-test and a wrapper aka docker for the development process.