- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB HOW TO#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB CODE#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB ISO#
- #HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB DOWNLOAD#
You're putting the cart before the horse. In any event you still need to put some research time into what you plan to do before you try to do it. I don't know that I was being unfair, but if you've made it to 100 you deserve an applause. If you were in your 60s then you must be over 100 today. But, you may be able to get Ubuntu installed from Windows using Wubi which is included on the Live CD.īTW, I'm 68. Now, you may be able to get some different results working from Windows, but I've never installed Linux from Windows, and Windows is even worse about booting from any external device including flash drives. Step 4: Click on Start to create a bootable device.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB ISO#
Step 2: Run Rufus Step 3: Select Drive and ISO File.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB DOWNLOAD#
Steps to Download and Creating Bootable USB. It is a piece of cake to create a bootable drive using Rufus. Since your optical drive is not working you'll either need to have it replaced or buy an external one you can use. Just download and run to create a bootable device. Second, click the Select button and browse to the ISO file you downloaded. First, in the Device box, select your USB drive. The problem is that the OS X bootloader simply will not recognize a foreign OS on a flash drive. Launch Rufus and insert your USB flash drive into your computer to get started. You will have to use an optical drive and boot from the Live CD. You may find that despite what you've done you still cannot startup the Linux live CD from the flash drive. Now, normally you cannot boot a Mac from a foreign OS via a flash drive. 1.) To gain admin (root) access, open a terminal ctrl+alt+t, then type the following and press Enter.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB CODE#
First we need to install required packages, grab the latest Grub2 source code from the repository, and then bootstrap it.
#HOW TO INSTALL LINUX WITH USB HOW TO#
Select it and click on the downward pointing arrow key. How to use Linux to Install Grub2 on USB Get the latest Grub2 Source Code and Bootstrap it. If you're lucky the flash drive should appear as a choice. Thanks to all for the help.All you need do is insert the flash drive, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager appears. I'll give the checkmark to the answer that got me the farthest. Nevertheless, many of the solutions presented would probably have worked, and I guess everything messed up because I was rushing through it. I got angry with nothing working and went and bought a DVD-RW. So I still have frugal install of linux mint and nothing else I can boot to.
I'm trying to follow the grub4dos entry in this tutorial, but I see no menu.lst anywhere on the file system. To do so, you must first download the installation media and burn the ISO file to USB. These days, the easiest way to install Debian is from a bootable USB thumb drive. So I guess formatting E: did that, hehe.Īnyways, what can I do to proceed? What I have now is a frugal live install of Linux mint, with an installer that seems to be working but I can't find a way to access the fruit of its labors. So you have decided that you want to install Debian Linux on your computer. And trying to boot the old windows XP (which is still listed on boot) yields a BSOD crash. When I, multiple times, tried to install the "real" linux mint from there (using the icon on the desktop), things seemed to have gone right (which means I should have linux installed on the partition that Windows sees as "E:"), but I can't boot up that one (does not show on boot options, or fron unetbootin). Well I got linux mint running using unetbootin, but it's "live mode" and seems to exist on the same partition as windows xp, which is still there. If that is any help, A currently runs Windows XP.
Is there any way I can install linux on A given my situation? I do however have access to other computers, other hard drives, and several USBs. I do not have access to a CD or DVD to create a boot disc. The bios on A does not recognize "booting from USB". I have a computer (A) that I want to install linux on.