Need help installing Trisquel on my netbook
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Hey, I'm looking for a way to install Trisquel on my netbook.
I'm pretty new to GNU/Linux (I've used Ubuntu before, and all of my servers use a version of Linux), and don't know how to do this.
My netbook doesn't have a CD drive, and I can't get VirtualBox to work on this Macbook of mine to create a USB start drive that way.
I'd appreciate very simple explanations as I'm not real good at using my Mac, as I think I'll have to to get at the (Windows 7) netbook.
If you need any more details, just ask I guess; I'll check back tomorrow after school.
You could get a USB CD drive to use with your netbook.
I don't know if a USB CD drive will work, it didn't work on my old laptop that had its optical drive broken. But you can make a live USB stick from Windows or OS X, or from another GNU/Linux distro. There's more info on this page:
Yeah, I saw that page (https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-create-liveusb) and thought that'd help, but "make a bootable USB drive with *Trisquel installed*", so I don't think that'll help, unless I'm misunderstanding that phrase.
Also, if someone could provide a link to download the bootloader to run Trisquel alongside Win7 on my netbook that I could just download and run on there, I think that'd work too.
On 14/08/13 14:13, ethan wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that page
> (https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-create-liveusb) and thought that'd
> help, but "make a bootable USB drive with *Trisquel installed*", so I
> don't think that'll help, unless I'm misunderstanding that phrase.
I think the wiki page could be slightly misleading in using the word
"installed" there. It creates a bootable USB drive using the ISO, which
you can use to install Trisquel on your hard drive.
Andrew.
It's not worded wonderfully, but it just means that it'll install Trisquel on the USB stick from an ISO, resulting in a live USB stick. The instructions for Windows work on any computer that runs Windows; there's no other per-requisite.
Oh, OK, thanks :)
If you wouldn't mind, could you give me some real easy instructions on making a LiveUSB? That'd be great :)
Sorry, I'm just not very good at installing OSs the first time.
Use dd to write an iso the your flash drive. Here's an example:
sudo dd if=trisquel_6.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdd
'if' stands for input file, or the iso you wish to copy
"of" stands for output file, or where you wish to write the iso file to.
The device name of your flash drive may not be /dev/sdd as in the comand above. Once plugged in, you can use 'fdisk -l', as root or using sudo, to find the device name of the flash drive, then alter the command above as necessary.
I am not a Mac user, but it might help you,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Linux_USB_Loader
"Unlike other software, Mac Linux USB Loader can create a live USB that boots natively on Apple Macintosh computers using its EFI firmware."
Eh, ended up using UNetBootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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