On Mine, Hit Escape or F1 as the BIOS starts (I forget which). Then select the USB drive.
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 10:12 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: > Hello, > > I have a laptop onto which I'd like to install Linux Mint. > > On my Ubuntu desktop machine, I downloaded the Linux Mint ISO from > linuxmint.com. > I then ran the 'Startup DIsk Creator' on the Ubuntu system, giving it a 4GB > USB memory stick and the > linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-32bit.iso file. The Startup DIsk Creator has run > apparently successfully and > the USB key now shows as a 4GB file system containing directories: > /boot, /casper, /install, /preseed, /syslinux, /.disk and some top level > files including autorun.inf. > > However, when I put this USB key into the laptop, although I have set the > USB Key as top priority in the BIOS boot menu, the laptop just boots from > the hard disk. > > I am pretty sure the ISO image itself is sound, as I have run the Mint > system directly from the image in a VirtualBox VM. > > The User Guide talks about burning the ISO to a DVD and not to a USB key. > Is there anything else I need to do to make a bootable USB key from an ISO > image? > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
