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OneFileLinux: A 20MB Alpine metadistro that fits into the ESP


Live linux distro combined in one ~20MB file. Runs on any UEFI computer (PC or Mac) without installation. Just copy one file to EFI system partition and boot.

No USB flash needed — once copied to EFI partition, OneFileLinux can boot any time from system disk. In comparison with Live USB flash, one file Linux setups permanently in EFI partition and can boot any time later.My personal goal is to use laptop’s internal PCIe WiFi card for cracking WiFi with aircrack-ng and reaver software, since PCIe devices can’t be forwarded into virtual machine. Add NVRAM boot option I can’t find out how to do this in Windows, so you probably need Linux for this.Replace/dev/sda to you disk path and--part 2 to your EFI partition number.

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