Revision of How to Create a LiveUSB from Tue, 08/13/2013 - 18:08

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.

• Select Startup Disk Creator.

• Select a source disk image or burned Trisquel disk and a designated device. Click Make Startup Disk.

• Confirmation will display that the startup drive is complete.

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))

This manual is not an endorsement for the use of non-free operating systems. This manual is designed to help users migrate from non-free systems to free ones.

• 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.

• Download Pen Drive Linux's USB Installer
• Select Trisquel from the dropdown list

• Click 'Browse' and open the downloaded ISO file

• Choose the USB drive and click 'Create'

In Mac OS X (Terminal)

This manual is not an endorsement for the use of non-free operating systems. This manual is designed to help users migrate from non-free systems to free ones.

• 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