Since USB drives are so big these days, it seems silly to use a whole 16 GB (or more) for a singl...

[G+_John Mink]

Since USB drives are so big these days, it seems silly to use a whole 16 GB (or more) for a single operating system installer.  (like the Windows Installer or other OSes, I know linux live is a bit different)

 

I've seen some tools which are specific to linux, or others like YUMI which state that "Installing Linux from the YUMI created USB Drive to a Hard Drive is not officially supported"   but apparently works sometimes. 

 

It just seems ridiculous to think there's not a tool which supports this....

[G+_Dan Clark]

Try easy2boot, I think that might be what you're looking for.

[G+_John Mink]

Looks promising!  We'll see if it holds up, seems like it might be a bit tricky with UEFI MoBos.

[G+_Dan Clark]

Most uefi mobos support legacy bios as well (mine does, anyway) and easy2boot works like a champ. I have win7, 8, and 10 installs on there, spin rite, Ubuntu, acronis, and several linux based rescue tools, all booting from the same flash drive - so depending on your needs, I'm guessing it'll do the trick :c)

[G+_John Mink]

Weird, doesn't seem to like my old USB drive (for the record Spinrite on L4 found no problems).  It completes with FAT32 but even after that E2B can't seem to complete with NTFS.

 

I'm buying a new one anyway, so I'll test this again in a few days with the new USB drive.  Hopefully it'll cooperate then.

 

If anyone else has other tools they suggest, I'll try those, otherwise I'll try this on the new drive in a few days.