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Introduction |
| '''Distros this works with: Universal''' | | '''What this guide accomplishes: Making a USB drive bootable to install Linux.''' | [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6HsFZ5508HPazYtemRyWlY4Q1E/view?usp=sharing|Legacy guide with CDDVD burning instructionsguide (Note: VERY OUT OF DATEOUDATED)] | | ++ '''Important guide notes:''' ++ | * This guide favors NEW USB drives due to how cheap a good drive generally issmall capacity drives are. If you want to reuse an old drive (or have no choice), this isthen those will also okay. However, I recommend buying a new drive to make things as simple as possiblework.
* I have removed all information from this guide that targets DVD burning. Many new laptops (and some desktops) do notno longer include optical drives.
If your laptop was purchased* In a lot of cases, the optical drives that come with used, there equipment is a very good chancelikely already broken in some way. It isn't uncommon for the previous owner doesn't know if theto neglect a failed optical drive works because. In regards to laptops this is even more common then it was never usedis on desktops.
* Many laptop owners end up neglectingIn the optical drive if it fails. This is because they are rarely used these days. If the internal drive has failed, your options are to usecase of a USB stick or external optical drive.
* USB drivesdrive, they can be formattedreformatted and reused multiple times and have multiple distros written to it overbefore the life of the USB drive. Many USB drives last longer then DVD's before they fail as wellflash memory wears out. DVD media is generally going to betypically single use only.
++ '''READ ME IF YOUR SYSTEM HAS TROUBLE BOOTING FROM USB DIRECTLY.:''' ++
'''Note:''' This problem typically only comes up for users with very old hardware (or systems with buggy USB boot implementations). It does NOT affect the majority of readers.
If your system that has trouble booting from USB media directly, youa CD boot ma manager can be used as a workaround.
These guides cover how to use athe boot manager on CD to mitigate the problem. I have included a link to such a boot manager in the guide.
The guide can be found hereoption: | | [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+use+PlopKexec+%28Subguide%29/54074|PlopKExec] | | [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+use+Plop+Boot+Manager+(Subguide)/54031|Plop Boot Manager] | | '''Note: Most users will not need to use this. In most cases, the only readers who will need to use this type of boot manger are using legacy systems (or systems with a buggy USB boot implementation).''' |
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