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[title] Writing to the USB drive | |
- | [* icon_caution] ***Users who have trouble booting from USB directly:*** If your system |
- | [* icon_reminder] Rufus will ask you if you want to write the ISO in ISO or DD mode. |
+ | [* icon_caution] ***Users who have trouble booting from USB directly:*** If your system has USB boot problems, refer to refer to [guide|54074|this guide] for additional tools to facilitate USB booting. ***Note:*** Most users will not need to do this. This only affects older systems and BIOSes with buggy USB boot implementations. |
+ | [* icon_reminder] Rufus will ask you if you want to write the ISO in ISO or DD mode. Either mode works, but if in doubt use the recommended choice. ***Optional:*** If you are using an older USB drive, run a block test. This will ensure the drive does not have any problems before you use it. |
[* red] Find Rufus and open it. Once Rufus is open, find the ISO of the Linux distro you downloaded. Click on the image that looks like a CD to locate the ISO. | |
- | [* orange] Once you find the ISO, click it and then click ***Open***. |
+ | [* orange] Once you find the ISO, click it and then click ***Open***. Select the ISO you want to write to the USB drive. ***Note:*** If ***ISO Image*** is not automatically selected, click on the drop-down menu to select it manually. |
[* yellow] ***WARNING! If you have any files you want to keep, back them up BEFORE writing the image to the USB drive.*** Once you locate the ISO to write to the drive, select ***Start***. The program will warn you this will erase the drive. Confirm this by clicking ***OK*** and the process will begin. |