LinuxLive USB Creator versions

It lets you easily create bootable virtualized USB sticks running Linux
2.9
Nov 5, 2020
Editorial review
rating
Feb 27, 2014
2.8
Jul 1, 2011
Review
2.6
Jul 7, 2010
Review

What's new

v2.9 [Aug 31, 2014]
New major features:
- Improved support for 64-bit variants.
- Support for ReactOS / OpenMandrivaLX / CDLinux.
- Smarter autodetection of Syslinux version, INITRD and VMLINUZ files.
- Retry to format 5 times instead of 1 (with 5 seconds delay).
- Retry to install boot sectors 5 times instead of 1 (with 5 seconds delay).
- Error is returned to user when formatting failed.
- Autorun creation has been disabled (can be re-enabled in the advanced options).
- Code has been simplified and commented.
- Storage controller in virtualbox is automatically changed to the best one (IDE or SCSI) to improve chances of booting.
- Type of VM automatically set (useful for 64-bit Linux).
Improvements:
- Flush old logs (keep 1 month).
- Latest AutoIT compiler 3.3.12.0
- Syslinux 5 and 6 support.
- fat32Format 1.07 (GPT support fix for boot sector when using Windows AIK's bootsect.exe).
- Use a more reliable method to fetch UUID/MBRID and physical drive numbers.
- Recognition options can be changed without reselecting the ISO.
- Changelog on website will give more info (new distribs, major features, improvements, fixed bugs and known bugs).
- Warning when selecting a ZIP file containing only an ISO.
- Improved sourceforge download from global mirrors.
- Lighter compatibility list, should be faster to load.
- New languages : Armenian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Malay, Persian (Farsi).
- Default RAM requirement for VirtualBox is now 384 MB.
- Removed unmaintained/unpopular distro : Meego / WifiWay / LiveHacking /Elive / Vyatta / Vortexbox / VectorLinux / Zenwalk / Zenix / SolusOS / PureOS / BlankOn.
Fixed bugs:
- fix some crash when WMI was corrupted/not working.
- Could not cancel download when selecting the destination folder.
- Previous betas may not check for new beta availability (and option display was wrong).
- Removed windows 7/8 progress bar in taskbar because it was crashing on other OSes.
- Hiren's boot / Fedora / CentOS support was broken/compromised.
- Icons/names changed on all drives (autorun creation is now disabled by default).
Known Bugs:
- Graphic interface may flickers or hang when LiLi is busy but usually comes back.
- cannot stop a Linux download unless you shut LiLi down.
- Asian characters not displaying in the progress bar.

v2.8 [Jul 1, 2011]
-Aptosid 2011-02 "Imera" Xfce
-Aptosid 2011-02 "Imera" KDE Lite
-Sabayon 6 LXDE
- Sabayon 6 Xfce
-Sabayon 6 E17
-SMS (Superb Mini Server) Live 1.6.1

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