On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 9:10:33 AM UTC-4, Dara Vakili wrote: > Hey all > > I’m still struggling to get it to work. I have used rubus to write the qubes > ISO as a dd image onto a usb stick. When it was complete I could see two > folders. > > I restart my laptop with UEFI bios putting USB boot as my primary. For some > reason it won’t boot from the USB. Does the qubes installation need to be > done in legacy mode or it works with UEFI? > > Best Wishes > Dara > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > From: Franz > Sent: 15 May 2017 21:35 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [qubes-users] Installation Issues on WD MyPassport Ultra Drive > > > > > > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey Guys > > Trying to write ISO as DD with rufus onto my external HDD. When I use rufus, > tell it to read all files and select the iso, confirm I want it as dd image > and not as iso then I hit start. The bugger gets to around 15% after like 4 > hours then fails with an error message. Error message just says write > failure. > > The HDD works fine but there’s some issue with my windows 10 laptop from > formatting it properly. I had to download minitool partition wizard as > windows couldn’t partition or format it. > > Anyone know any other dd writer that works on windows? Or anything else I can > try? > All I want to do is install qubes onto this 2TB external HDD. Any advice > greatly appreciated xxx > > > > Two notes: > > 1. if you do not find any better way, you may boot a live linux distribution > over your windows installation without damaging it. > > 2. To install Qubes onto this 2TB external HDD I imagine you need another > source (such as a USB pendrive) for keeping the Qubes iso installer. Then, > installation should start with the pendrive and the 2TB HDD will be the > target. Once I did that and it worked. > > Best > > Fran > > > > Bests > D > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/591a01f1.f58edf0a.c869a.fb38%40mx.google.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >
easier to use legacy boot if you can. There is no benefit to using uefi. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/76115080-e414-4b76-a9ef-a64e319eddc6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
