Re: Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

[Daniel Shahaf]

Thank you both for the suggestions; I'll keep them in mind next time.

(For the time being, I have a bootable disk for my friend so I'm all set.)

Cheers,

Daniel

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Re: Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

[Shlomo Solomon]

As far as I know Etcher has a Windows version - never tried it, but it
works well on Linux so should be a good alternative - and (at least the
Linux version) has a nice GUI so should be good for a Windows user.

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:34:17 +
"Daniel Shahaf"  wrote:

> I tried to walk a friend through using Windows 10 to create a bootable
> Linux USB disk, so they'd install their first Linux box.
> 
> Debian (and FreeBSD) recommend win32diskimager.  Arch suggested a few
> other tools, of which I tried Rufus 3.19 and "dd for windows".  The
> first and third didn't work at all; the second worked once but not
> again on the same image.
> 
> Rather than try a fourth tool, I went ahead and created the bootable
> USB disk for my friend myself using good old dd(8) on one of my
> existing Linux machines.
> 
> Now I wonder how a random Windows user is supposed to bootstrap
> themselves a bootable Linux USB disk.  Perhaps my experience is not
> representative.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
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Re: Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

[Mark E. Fuller]

For Fedora, we have the "Fedora Media Writer" available for all platforms
to write USB disks:
(yes, it can write your Debian image as well, not just Fedora)

See the download page for how it's integrated into "user experience" with
download links
Download Fedora Workstation (getfedora.org)


Source and binaries:
FedoraQt/MediaWriter: Fedora Media Writer - Write Fedora Images to Portable
Media (github.com) 


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On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 3:35 PM Daniel Shahaf 
wrote:

> I tried to walk a friend through using Windows 10 to create a bootable
> Linux USB disk, so they'd install their first Linux box.
>
> Debian (and FreeBSD) recommend win32diskimager.  Arch suggested a few
> other tools, of which I tried Rufus 3.19 and "dd for windows".  The
> first and third didn't work at all; the second worked once but not again
> on the same image.
>
> Rather than try a fourth tool, I went ahead and created the bootable USB
> disk for my friend myself using good old dd(8) on one of my existing
> Linux machines.
>
> Now I wonder how a random Windows user is supposed to bootstrap
> themselves a bootable Linux USB disk.  Perhaps my experience is not
> representative.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
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Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

[Daniel Shahaf]

I tried to walk a friend through using Windows 10 to create a bootable
Linux USB disk, so they'd install their first Linux box.

Debian (and FreeBSD) recommend win32diskimager.  Arch suggested a few
other tools, of which I tried Rufus 3.19 and "dd for windows".  The
first and third didn't work at all; the second worked once but not again
on the same image.

Rather than try a fourth tool, I went ahead and created the bootable USB
disk for my friend myself using good old dd(8) on one of my existing
Linux machines.

Now I wonder how a random Windows user is supposed to bootstrap
themselves a bootable Linux USB disk.  Perhaps my experience is not
representative.

Cheers,

Daniel

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