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| ====== Create Live USB disk ======= | ====== Create Live USB disk ======= | ||
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| - | If you want to make a bootable USB with Windows | + | ===== From a Windows |
| - | A tool for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards | + | Running a Windows host/Operating System you can create a live USB disk with Sparkylinux using one of the tools, for example: |
| - | http:// | + | * [[http:// |
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| + | How to write Sparkylinux iso to a pen drive on Windows host? | ||
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| + | 1. Insert at least 2GB USB stick into your PC and launch one of the applications listed above. | ||
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| + | 2. Click ' | ||
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| + | 3. Choose the USB drive and click ' | ||
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| + | Now you can boot Sparkylinux from your pen drive changing the boot order in your machine' | ||
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| + | ---- | ||
| - | Description | ||
| - | This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, | ||
| ===== From a Linux host ===== | ===== From a Linux host ===== | ||
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| sudo fdisk -l | sudo fdisk -l | ||
| - | and then enter your " | + | and then enter your password. |
| This is only an example, which shows: | This is only an example, which shows: | ||
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| / | / | ||
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| - | /dev/sdc1 | + | /dev/sdb1 |
| Next step is to erase previous partition info from your usb, so backup your data before formatting your pen drive. | Next step is to erase previous partition info from your usb, so backup your data before formatting your pen drive. | ||
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| Unmount your pen drive: | Unmount your pen drive: | ||
| - | | + | |
| Format it to FAT32 file system: | Format it to FAT32 file system: | ||
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| Now copy Sparky iso image to USB disk: | Now copy Sparky iso image to USB disk: | ||
| - | sudo dd if=~/ | + | sudo dd if=~/ |
| Where: | Where: | ||
| * ' | * ' | ||
| - | * '/dev/sdx' is the target USB drive. | + | * '/dev/sdb' is the target USB drive. |
| * if your system doesn' | * if your system doesn' | ||
| Warning: Make sure to set the correct device path, as this process will delete all data that was on the specified device previously! | Warning: Make sure to set the correct device path, as this process will delete all data that was on the specified device previously! | ||
| - | Remember, don't include an integer for the USB drive, e.g. '/dev/sdx1', as it would refer to the existing partition on that drive and not the drive itself. | + | Remember, don't include an integer for the USB drive, e.g. '/dev/sdb1', as it would refer to the existing partition on that drive and not the drive itself. |
| - | When the USB has been properly created by **dd**, there should be an output similar to this: | + | When the Live USB has been properly created by **dd**, there should be an output similar to this: |
| sudo dd if=~/ | sudo dd if=~/ | ||
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| - | <WRAP center box 60%> | + | <WRAP center box 100%> |
| - | [[burn_iso|< | + | |[[burn_iso|< |
| </ | </ | ||
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