Can't boot NetInstall

Have you tried using dd?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media#Using_dd

Yes I have.

I tried:

-"dd"
-That guide: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/using-netinstall-image-bootable-usb-drive
-unetbootin (on a Mac)
-"USB live creator" doesn't recognize the iso as an image...

Make sure you've adjusted the BIOS to enable booting from a USBdisk; even if the installer makes the USB flashdrive bootable, in my experience it helps to mention something to the BIOS also.

When I go into the boot settings is have "UEFI" enabled and I have just the USB drive as a boot option.

Then it throws me on every boot back into the settings page.

Did you ever manage to boot any live USB key from this computer?

Yes when I installed Trisqel maybe a month ago... Weird.

What think you about the fact that the USB creator in Tisquel doesn't let me write the .iso file to the USB drive?

I will try another drive in the next days.

I don't have a DVD drive but my roommate has an external one...

All the other PCs in house are Macs... I'm not shure if they even can boot from suck a stick. But in theory it could work. They are all Intel.

Thank you for your advice!

I tried it with another drive but it does the same thing. Nothing.

I took two pictures of the settings and the boot window...

And I took a video to show that the USB-creator doesn't recognize the .iso file... https://www.u-cloud.ch/owncloud6/public.php?service=files&t=d8cd78585f05069293f73efcffb92448

PS: When I plug the drive into my mac disk utility says that there is no mount point...

I just have given it another try with disabled UEFI.

Initially I was happy to see it acted different but I had no luck. Just an underline on a black screen appeared and continued to blink. I had a USB to Network adapter plugged in and the Internet works when running Tisquel...

One more question: should it be possible to create a bootable USB with the system integrated "USB creator" or not? Because I can make one with the "belenos" .iso file but not with the "Trisquel NetInstall" one.

1.Has your computer got a CD drive?
2.If it has, and a CD-RW-reading one at that, have you got a CD-RW lying around?
3. If so, problem (sort of) solved :)

Regarding https://trisquel.info/en/forum/cant-boot-netinstall#comment-66198 , I think NetInstall ISOs are a bit 'special' compared to the other ISOs (I think the netinstall is rooted to Debian whilst the other ISOs aren't - might be wrong, though) so the incompatibility is probably to be expected.

It's also been said that 'normal' LiveUSBs won't work with Macs. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-boot-a-linux-live-usb-stick-on-your-mac/ (I', not sure the software recommended there is free, though).

Thanks to both of you.

I managed to boot the "belenos" .iso so my machine can boot from USB.

@davidnotcoulthard: It is actually a Asus Zenbook (UX31 I guess).

I am going to use an external USB drive now.... Thans to all of you!

Yes, I am sorry.

That works neither because that superdrive from apple won't run without drivers.

I can boot the disc on my old mac with an internal drive.... Maybe I will get a used drive for PC.