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Introduction |
| '''Distros this works with: Universal''' | | '''What this guide accomplishes: Making a USB drive bootable to install Linux.''' | | | '''Important notes:''' | * This guide favors NEW USB drives. This guide can be used with used drives, but a new drive is suggested. You can get a 8GB USB drive for less then ~$105, dependingbut this will depend on your local prices. If you buy it online, expect to pay even less. Sometimes 16GB drives cost the same amount as 8GB drives. | * DVD burning related information has been removed. The reason for this is I believe USB is the better option. You will probably find your next laptop doesn't have a DVD drive and it's going to beyou will need a USB flashdriveoptical drive in order to use CD or DVD drivemedia. If you bought the laptop used and you find the drive does not work you will have to use this anyway ifunless you do not have a USB DVDreplace the drive to fall back onor again, use an external optical drive. USB isa lot also morereliable durable thenDVD's are optical media.If you decide The main advantage is the ability toswitch distros or find your reuse older USBdrive doesn't boot right then you can wipe the drive and fix media by formatting i, which you can't do with DVD'st. This also comes in handy if you switch distros, since you can wipeyour the drive and changeyour distros. With DVD medi out without burninga, you need to burn a whole new se of DVD's to make the switcht . | * If your system that has trouble booting from USB flashdrives directly, you can use a boot manager to mitigate the problem. There is a link to a guide that covers this. '''MostHowever, most users will not need this.''' | | '''READ THIS IF YOU ARE USING A USED FLASH DRIVE!''' | | * If your USB drive is used, use Rufus. This will format the drive, to ensure the filesystem is intact. Unless the filesystem is too damaged for Rufus to handle, it should be able to format the drive. | | * Follow the guide in this order, if you have to format the USB drive manually: '''Computer Management: 5/6/7/1/2/3/4''' '''Windows format prompt: 8/1/2/3/4''' |
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