Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
As virtualbox does not let us natively boot from USB, we need to get creative and use a boot manager that lets us do that anyway.
One such manager is the Plop linux boot manager that takes little less than 600kb of space and provideds floppy, optical drive and usb boot to machines that can't do such things.
Here is the downloand link: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html
As virtualbox does not let us natively boot from USB, we need to get creative and use a boot manager that lets us do that anyway.
One such manager is the Plop linux boot manager that takes little less than 600kb of space and provideds floppy, optical drive and usb boot to machines that can't do such things.
Here is the downloand link: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html







![Raspberry Pi Network attached storage how to
How to make a Linux network fileshare using a raspberry pi and a flash drive to be used with Windows clients.
Note: the SSH remote connection needs to be turned on from the initial Pi setup or installed later for this tutorial to work
commands used:
ifconfig
sudo su
fdisk -l
umount /dev/sda1 (note, replace the sda1 with your own device 1. partition be it sdb1 etc.)
fdisk /dev/sda
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda
mkdir /nas
mount /dev/sda1 /nas/
nano /etc/fstab
in fstab: /dev/sda1 /nas ext3 rw
apt-get update
apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
service samba restart
smb.conf config used:
[share]
comment = raspberrypi share
path = /nas
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
only guest = yes
directory mask = 777
public = yes Raspberry Pi Network attached storage how to](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yuzuPKNwwII/mqdefault.jpg)

