how to create a usb booteble in Q3OS?

JUliAn123321 · 2020-04-18 16:53

For a while now I have been trying to create a bootable usb in q4os, try the dd and cp command, and it doesn't work, my bios doesn't recognize the usb as a bootable disk, try to install unetbootin but it doesn't run despite giving it permissions , I also tried with g-nome disks and my bios does not recognize it either.

thanks.

Dai_trying · 2020-04-18 22:47

If this is an old machine it is possible that it cannot boot from usb, you could try burning the image to cd/dvd to see if that works.

detoo · 2020-04-19 04:10

Dai_trying wrote:

If this is an old machine it is possible that it cannot boot from usb, you could try burning the image to cd/dvd to see if that works.

Or try Plop:
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

crosscourt · 2020-04-19 17:57

I work with older hardware a lot and Ive run into hardware that does support booting by USB but the USB 2.0 device is not seen on a USB 1.1 port. It should be ok but many times it simply doesnt. Thats when I go to a livedvd and do it that way. Its easy, fast and well supported, no jumping thru hoops.

tlmiller76 · 2020-04-19 18:14

Unless of course you don't own a machine that has an optical drive in order to create a CD/DVD...

crosscourt · 2020-04-19 19:36

Most older hardware has a cd/dvd drive but he can always make a live cd/dvd using another system, maybe a friend can help. With no info on what hardware hes using, its hard to comment.

JUliAn123321 · 2020-04-19 22:16

Dai_trying wrote:

If this is an old machine it is possible that it cannot boot from usb, you could try burning the image to cd/dvd to see if that works.

my computer doesn't have a disk drive, I already tried the dd and cp command, and when it tried to install unetbootin, it throws me an error that I don't have the libpng12-0 library installed, I try to install it but it doesn't work, I have a canaima , It is a computer of the State of Venezuela

crosscourt · 2020-04-19 23:20

The Canaima laptop in fact uses the Canaima open source operating system, which is based on Debian. If this is the educational laptop version handed out in Venezuela youll have a hard time getting a different operating system installed let alone run a live usb/dvd on the system. The bios is locked down and the hardware has built in limitations.

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JUliAn123321 · 2020-04-20 00:12

crosscourt wrote:

The Canaima laptop in fact uses the Canaima open source operating system, which is based on Debian. If this is the educational laptop version handed out in Venezuela youll have a hard time getting a different operating system installed let alone run a live usb/dvd on the system. The bios is locked down and the hardware has built in limitations.

I already have it unlocked, As I said before I have Q4OS installed, I usually use unetbootin but it won't let me run it because I don't have the libpng12-0 library, and it won't let me add it, I know that the bios for usb works, but so far it has only run using unetbootin and Rufus, but I don't have access to a Windows PC because of quarantine to use rufus.

crosscourt · 2020-04-20 02:55

My bad as I misread your post, must be the stay at home brain death again.

tlmiller76 · 2020-04-20 03:14

You could try installing balena-etcher, I know it runs in q4os (I have it on my q4os machine). It's basically just a gui frontend to dd, but it's always worked well for me.

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