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Sorry if wrong place but how do I make a live USB? (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm a complete beginner looking to start with mint. I have a USB but don't know how to make it. Are there tutorials I can use?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You need a software like rufus or etcher for windows. Run the software as admin, select your drive (be careful to select the right one. It will be wiped in the process), select you iso file of linux mint and confirm. The software will create a bootable usb drive. Plug it into you pc and reboot. Now the process ist depending on your computer. Some will boot right into the live usb others will boot back into your normal hard drive. If later one is the case, you need to enter your boot menu via one of the function keys. Which one depends on your mainboard.

If you still have questions, feel free to ask. And have fun with Linux :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

you need to download the mint iso first:)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Plenty of tutorials out there, you can have a google for one that you like. It's pretty simple though, just download a .iso of the distro you want to try, and then flash it to a thumb drive using, I'd suggest, Rufus. Balena Etcher is another good option.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

look up rufus or ventoy and start from there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ATM ventoy is on the USB. Do I download the minto to a random folder to check first of do I verify it in ventoy? Also which mirrors are good?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

just do what ventoy tells you

you can download mint as a torrent, otherwise pick a mirror that is geographically close

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

K, I'm gonna terminate my download and torenet it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

And the benefit of Ventoy is that it's literally drag and drop the ISO once you setup Ventoy for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Toreenting from official site. Is the torrent meant to be 3 GB rather than 2.8gb?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

that's how it looks for me in transmission (linux mint 21.2 cinnamon)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Use Balena Etcher to "burn" (the correct term is flash) the iso on the usb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'd suggest checking out the official installation instructions linked at the top of the mint homepage. They're pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

here you go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps this page in Mint documentation may help https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html#how-to-make-a-bootable-usb-stick

The following video is more advanced but covers Ventoy which lets you have a bootable disk that you can copy ISO files onto. You will then have an USB with multiple distributions that you can pick and choose between at boot time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10L8aCY3VBs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=10L8aCY3VBs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Good bot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks, mint is on stick just when I booted ventroy in normal mode I got a kernel panic instantly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

https://rufus.ie/en/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you in windows or Linux?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Linux USB windows main but my problem is solved