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Introduction |
If you are unsure how to write an ISO to a USB flash drive, this guide will show you how to use Rufus to accomplish this task. USB boot can also beis used in lieu of a failedoptical media. This can be because the system did not come with an internal optical drive if you door the optical drive the system came with has failed and the previous owner did not replace the optical drive or the current owner does not want to purchase a USB optical drive and has chosen not to replace the drive and do not own an USB external drive. | | | == Read this if you plan on using this tool with another operating system. == | | When this guide was written, it was written with the intention of using used for Linux exclusively. However, Rufis can be used with any compatible operation system which supports USB boot. '''Support for older operating systems without USB boot support is not guaranteed. Obscure operating systems (Ex: ReactOS) may not work if the image is written with Rufus.''' | You'''If you use this guide for this purpose, you will need to locate the image and any tools needed to make this work yourself but. However, it is possible to use this tool with other operating systems.''' | | === Guide notes === | | * New USB drives are inexpensive. If you still want to reuse an existing drive, format it outside of Rufus first. | * '''CD/DVD creation is no longerhas not been covered in this guidefor a while. If you need instructions on how to do this, refer to the [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6HsFZ5508HPazYtemRyWlY4Q1E/view?usp=sharing|refer to the original version of this guide].'''
* '''This guide is on it's 3rd major iterarion due a complete UX change in Rufus 3.x. The final version of (Revision 2.0) covering Rufus 2.x can be found [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1huW_2PpgR-RZzwKQe0wRlb5ZFsovFSZG|found here].'''
* While a Linux ISO is used in this guide, this tool can be used with any modern operating system. '''Support for older (and some obscure) OSes is not guaranteed.''' |
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