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The goal of this manual is to instruct the user on how to make a bootable USB drive with Trisquel installed.

Trisquel (Graphical)

  • Launch System Settings from the main menu.

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  • Select Startup Disk Creator.

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  • Confirmation will display that the startup drive is complete.

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Terminal (dd of GNU Coreutils)

$ sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M;sync
Note that you want the device name (e.g. /dev/sdx) not the partition name (e.g. /dev/sdx1).

Windows (Universal USB Installer (GPLv2))

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  • Insert a USB stick with at least 2GB of free space

The easiest way to get up an running with USB is to use the USB installer provided by pendrivelinux.com. You’ll need to download and install and follow the instructions.

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  • Click 'Browse' and open the downloaded ISO file

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  • Choose the USB drive and click 'Create'

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In Mac OS X (Terminal)

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  • Download a Trisquel disc image from our downloads page.
  • Open the Terminal from Applications/Utilities.
  • Convert the .iso file to a .img.
    $ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/trisquel.img ~/path/to/trisquel.iso
    
  • $ diskutil list
    
    for the list of devices currently attached.
  • Insert your USB stick.
  • $ diskutil list
    
    again to figure out the device file assigned to your USB stick (e.g. /dev/disk2).
  • $ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
    
    where N is the number from the last command. (If your USB stick is /dev/disk2, N would be 2).
  • $ sudo dd if=/path/to/trisquel.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m
    
    If you see the error dd: Invalid number '1m', replace 1m with 1M in the previous command.
  • $ diskutil eject /dev/diskN
    

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