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[Member dee64]

Had to look up the thread.
I said.
Have the same problem. 19.3 Full and Base iso do not go to desktop the boot finishes at a username prompt and password prompt with the instruction to enter as root and enter “cli-installer”

XECURE gave this advice.
Anyway, if 19.2 works for you, install and update it. Your system will be almost the same as installing from 19.3, so nothing to worry then.

Which is exactly what I have done and it has done exactly the same thing, again.

Anyone know why?

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: dee Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
  Distro: antiX-19.2_386-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Pavilion ze5200 v: KF.F.13 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 0850 v: NS570 Version PQ1B60 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Phoenix v: KF.F.13 date: 02/27/2004 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5315 
  Speed: 2658 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2658 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS200M [Radeon IGP 330M/340M/345M/350M] 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:05.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RS200 4337) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2 
  v: 1.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus ID: 00:06.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: ali1535_smbus v: N/A port: 2000 
  bus ID: 00:11.0 
  Device-2: National DP83815 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: natsemi v: kernel port: 2400 bus ID: 00:12.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter type: USB 
  driver: r8188eu bus ID: 1-2:3 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 6.16 GiB (16.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: IC25N040ATCS04-0 size: 37.26 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 12.63 GiB used: 6.16 GiB (48.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.02 GiB used: 284 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 140 Uptime: 1h 10m Memory: 873.7 MiB used: 453.4 MiB (51.9%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36

I have been using antix 19.2 for a couple of months on this old girl she has been with me for 17yrs never let me down using win xp. An unamed linux distro f–d everything up and xp was no more, antix was the only distro that took one look up her skirt and said “I’ve got just the thing for you” and here we are. 19.2 was great until I started installing updates. Well it’s doing it again. I took the advice and started clean with a completely new install of 19.2 (finding 19.2 to download is another story) Downloaded on another machine running MX19.2, md5 and live usb maker, installed on this machine even installed Grub during the installation, wow never done that before, made a couple of small adjustments changed the wallpaper for a black screen, shrunk the toolbar, set the keyboard and time and installed XDM download manager and extension for firefox that’s it. Ran updater and installed 233 updates rebooted, failed to boot. Ran live usb Boot Repair, all good, decided I would create a snapshot before I did anything else. Ran snapshot from the menu so nothing else was running, snapshot created successfully BUT having learnt my lesson from last time I checked the md5sum that had just been created, FAILED. I reinstalled iso_template and ISO Snapshot, deleted the Snapshot just created and tried again. First sign of madness, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. md5sum failed again. I did notice that within the snapshot creation text there was a small thing, about 0.02% is this normal #xorriso : UPDATE : 99.98% done#. I know how much you tech guys love your CLI
so I ran live usb maker from the cli command centre if nothing else it showed the problem lay in the linuxfs file.
I don’t get out much so sorry if this was overly long, anyone got a clue what is going on or should I just do a clean install and ignore the bloody updates?

$ ls
snapshot-19_2_updates301020.iso      snapshot-19_2_updates301020.iso.sha512
snapshot-19_2_updates301020.iso.md5
dee@dee:/home/snapshot
$ md5sum -c snapshot-19_2_updates301020.iso.md5
snapshot-19_2_updates301020.iso: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match

I reinstalled iso_template & snapshot for good measure, deleted this snapshot 
and ran snapshot again.

xorriso : UPDATE :  99.98% done   IS THIS RIGHT 99.98%
ISO image produced: 892385 sectors
Written to medium : 892385 sectors at LBA 0
Writing to 'stdio:/home/snapshot/snapshot-20201030_1148.iso' completed successfully.

isohybrid: Warning: more than 1024 cylinders: 1743
isohybrid: Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device

MX Snapshot completed sucessfully!
Snapshot took 00:30:03 to finish.
Thanks for using MX Snapshot, run MX Live USB Maker next!

literally 1min later ran md5sum check

dee@dee:/home/snapshot
$ md5sum -c snapshot-20201030_1148.iso.md5
snapshot-20201030_1148.iso: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match

Dont think this should happen!!

Ran Live usb maker via cli command centre

>> check-usb-md5
check md5 for initrd.gz
check md5 for linuxfs
Warning: MD5 CHECK FAILED FOR linuxfs

[Member Xecure]

Could using grub2-filemanager and combine it with antiX fantastic live init, fehlix’ live grub rescue options, Bitjam’s chroot-rescue, the isomount options, etc. bring a new age for antiX live USB technology?

UEFI is no longer the future. It is already here. All my Legacy_Bios machines died and only UEFI systems are left. Even MX Linux is now aiming for new modern machines with their AHS releases. Could we get them interested in this?

I am being shameless here, as I am expecting others to do something that I want (I tried to combine, by moving files to an antiX live USB and replacing the Grub folder, but I don’t know how to get it to connect to the live boot init; I am illitarate for this advanced technoly).

The live menus are OK, but I had to study the live boot parameters to really be able to get the best out of the grub live boot, and few will do that. Couldn’t we solve this by using real grub menus? Would it be difficult to translate? Would it be difficult to make a language menu selection add the lang=XX boot parameter automatically? If someone can point me in some good direction, I will try to implement it myself and make a “proof of concept”.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member rayluo]

Xecure wrote:

And recent topic exploring fromiso boot parameter:

What is the fromiso=… parameter, and when/how do you use it?

FYI, I started that “what is the fromiso=… parameter” post, with exact the same goal as “drag-and-drop to ISO to USB; (or even ideally dynamically choosing ISO from USB”, which is inspired by Ventoy. I did not make much progress in that experiment since then.

The Ventoy part works as advertised, allowing dynamically choosing any ISO from USB drive, including an antiX iso. BUT, an antiX booted this way does NOT have all the writable features available from a standard antiX liveUSB. So, Ventoy does not bring real value to my daily antiX workflow, and remains just a toy (pun not intended) to host a couple other distro for me.

Now I would hope the functionality the other way around: Create an antiX writable liveUSB as usual, and use it as such, but then occasionally somehow provides some boot parameter to instruct it to boot from a different ISO on the same liveUSB, and that ISO could be another antiX (say, 32 bit and 64 bit co-exist on same liveUSB available to be chosen at boot time), or it could even be a TENS, a Windows, etc.. //sing You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one…

[Member Xecure]

And recent topic exploring fromiso boot parameter:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/what-is-the-fromiso-parameter-and-when-how-do-you-use-it/

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Anonymous]

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https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=59905

by BitJam » Tue Aug 18, 2020

the Ventoy Github site says:

“Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.”

This is the old “boot from iso mode” which we support but do not recommend. We offer a “fromiso=<file>” boot option for this but I imagine Ventoy is using grub to mount the iso file automatically. Once you get it to boot (we have Grub experts here who may be able to help you with the grub entry if it’s not working) then you can add one of the following boot options to specify a read-write persistence partition where we can store our persistence files:

pdev=xxxx (the persistence partition name such as sdb1 or /dev/sdb1)
puuid=xxxx (the UUID of the persistence partition)
plab=xxxx (the label of the persistence partition)

The first time persistence is enabled we will create the persistence files for you if they don’t already exist. So all you need to do is point us to a read/write partition with one of the options above and you can also specify the form of persistence you want to use (with another option) if you don’t like the default. Normally we offer to save any boot parameters you used but booting directly from iso makes this either very difficult or impossible.

We support booting from iso file but we don’t recommend it because it’s not compatible with many of our extensive live-usb features. For example the live-remaster tool does not work with direct booting from an iso file. You could probably do this on your own by first making an iso snapshot and then manually copying the iso snapshot file overwriting the original iso file.

IF you want to try our extensive live-usb features then we recommend you use the live-usb-maker tool which comes with MX and antiX Linux. There is also an AppImage available if you want to run it on another Linux distro. Many people only run MX/antiX live using persistence and remastering to keep their changes. We tried to make this a “distro development tool” for creating your own customized version of antiX or MX. The constraints of booting directly from an iso file conflict with this distro development approach and also conflict with many of our other advanced features. It’s sort of like trying to combine a school bus with a Ferrari.

Still weak as kitten., Just sharing for now. All credit goes to

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/unetbootin-doesnt-work-with-linux-4175684383/#post6179790

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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Member marcelocripe]

Hi @cherith_reddy,

Welcome to antiX Linux.

If your processor is Core 2 Duo T5470 – 1.60 GHz, then it means that it is two or three generations later than Pentium 4, from the example mentioned by @Xecure.

As you have 1 GB of RAM, I also recommend using the 32-bit version, it will consume even less RAM memory than the 64-bit version.

If you are a beginner in this “Linux world” that I have been calling “the world of Linux distributions”, I recommend using the full version (antiX-19.3_386-full.iso).

If you don’t want to go through a long testing journey, like I did, check out this topic: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/system-requirements-for-antix-and-other-debians/, we share our experiences in using or testing other Linux distributions. Before arriving here and being very well received, just as you are being recreated, by these colleagues who have a gigantic experience and patience of the same size, here you are welcomed.

If you need help preparing a bootable USB flash drive with antiX Linux, see the topic https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/como-criar-pendrive-inicializavel-usando-o-ventoy-2/, you are at language Brazilian Portuguese, you will need to translate the text into your language with the help of an online translator or the translator of the internet browser itself, if your browser has this feature.

If possible, share your experience on the topic I mentioned.

See the topics created by our colleague @PPC that are of great help to new users of antiX:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-applications-2020-version/

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/dica-que-versao-do-antix-instalar-32-bits-ou-64-bits/

If your language is English, you will find much more help material available, videos and tutorials, unlike what happens for the language I write, it is very difficult to find material in Portuguese.

Good luck!

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese)

———-

Olá @cherith_reddy,

Seja bem vindo ao antiX Linux.

Se o seu processador é o Core 2 Duo T5470 – 1,60 GHz, então significa que ele é duas ou três gerações posterior ao Pentium 4, do exemplo mencionado por @Xecure.

Como você possui 1 GB de memória RAM, eu também recomendo o uso da versão 32 bits, consumirá ainda menos memória RAM do que a versão 64 bits.

Se você é um iniciante neste “mundo Linux” que eu venho chamando de “mundo das distribuições Linux”, recomendo usar a versão full (antiX-19.3_386-full.iso).

Se você não quiser passar por uma longa jornada de testes, como aconteceu comigo, veja neste tópico: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/system-requirements-for-antix-and-other-debians/, compartilhamos nossas experiências no uso ou testes de outras distribuições Linux. Antes de chegar aqui e ser bem muito bem recebido, assim como você está sendo recedido, por estes colegas que possuem uma experiência gigantesca e paciência de mesmo tamanho, aqui você é bem acolhido.

Se precisar de ajuda para preparar um pendrive iniciável com o antiX Linux, consulte o tópico https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/como-criar-pendrive-inicializavel-usando-o-ventoy-2/, está em idioma Português do Brasil, você precisará traduzir o texto para o seu idioma com o auxílio de um tradutor online ou do tradutor do próprio navegador de internet, caso o seu navegador possua este recurso.

Se possível, compartilhe a sua experiência no tópico que eu mencionei.

Veja os tópicos criados por nosso colega @PPC que são de grande ajuda para novos usuários do antiX:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-applications-2020-version/

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/dica-que-versao-do-antix-instalar-32-bits-ou-64-bits/

Se o seu idioma for o Inglês, você encontrará muito mais material disponível de ajuda, vídeos e tutoriais, ao contrário do que acontece para o idioma que eu escrevo, é bem difícil encontrar material em Português.

Boa sorte!

marcelocripe
(Texto original em Português do Brasil)

[Member cherith_reddy]

PPC wrote:

You’ll have to select the “.iso” file you want to download… There are many options because antiX comes in 32 bit (386) or 64 bits (x64) versions, also each of those versions come in “net”, “core”, “base” and “full” (this are ordered in increasing features).
For a 64 bits computer (build in the last 10 years or so) I would advise downloading “antiX-19.3_x64-full.iso”

Then you’ll have to burn that iso file to a DVD-ROM or make live USB pen-drive using that file…

P.

thanks a lot this will help

can you tell if this is 64 bit or 32bit
these are the specs

OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
version:5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
system Name; XXXXXXXX
system Manufacturer: LENOVO
system model: 9389AQ3
system Type: x86-based PC
processor: x86 Family 6 Model 15 stepping 13 GenuineInte] ~2194 MHz
processor: x86 Family 6 model 15 stepping 13 GenuineIntel ~2194 MHz
BIOS version/date: LENOVO 20KT47AUS, 1/17/2008
SMBIOS version :2.4
Windows Directory; C:\WINOOWS
system Directory; C:\WINDOWS\ System32
boot Device: \pevice\Harddiskvolumel
locale: united states
hardware Abstraction Layer version = “5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm. 040803-2158)”
user name :
Time Zone: India Standard Time
total Physical Memory: 1,024.00 MB
available physical memory: 365.17 MB
total Virtual Memory: 2.00 GB
available virtual Memory: 1.96 GB
Page File Space: 2.38 GB
Page File; C:\pagefile. sys

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by cherith_reddy.

[Member Murdock2525]

I have an issue with installing on stupid TV’s/hdmi.
When I boot the ISO everything becomes microscopic in size. I’ve battled my way to randr /control settings with a magnifier on earlier versions but sheesh. Any easy way to boot the thing ? F7 or safe vid ? I just dl’d 19 latest and ran into the same issues but now with a 32″ stupid tv/monitor.
Is their an easy answer ?

[Member Xecure]

dee64 wrote:

19.3 Full and Base iso do not go to desktop the boot finishes at a username prompt and password prompt with the instruction to enter as root and enter “cli-installer”, not exactly what I wanted. 19.2 iso does go to desktop as you would expect a live usb to do.

I don’t know if you want to find the reason, but maybe this will help others.

TWO big changes from antiX 19.2 to 19.3 (not counting the other software updates):
– Updated frimware. The new firmware packages may have some regressions for intel and amd graphics for older systems, so this may be the reason for older systems not to boot.
– Updated kernel. Though it tries to aim for a broader amount of machines supported, maybe the kernel has some regressions for your particular machine.

If your machine is less than 5 years old, better use 4.19 kernel version.
If your machine is very old, install a previous version and update whatever you need. Maybe you even need to use one of the 4.4 kerbel versions.

Anyway, if 19.2 works for you, install and update it. Your system will be almost the same as installing from 19.3, so nothing to worry then.

Regards.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member dee64]

Have the same problem. 19.3 Full and Base iso do not go to desktop the boot finishes at a username prompt and password prompt with the instruction to enter as root and enter “cli-installer”, not exactly what I wanted. 19.2 iso does go to desktop as you would expect a live usb to do. I had 19.2 installed and it was working just fine but the updates for 19.3 screwed things up, couldn’t find any answers on here so I was just going to do a clean install of 19.3 and start again. Now I am going to do a clean install of 19.2 and sod the bloody updates. When are you lot going to realize that we are not all computing geniuses, some of us started when you had to use a DOS prompt to start the computer but as soon as all you needed was the mouse and maybe the Enter key life was good, and that is how it has continued since, at least for me. Don’t misunderstand me I think Antix, MX, MINT and the rest are amazing, what you guys do is incredible.
This is a 17 yr old P4 32bit 812Mb ram 40Gb HDD and it has been loyal for all that time and it is extremely grateful for the extended life, but by xmas I want a core I5 64bit 4Gb ram 500Gb HDD just like our other one which I have had linux on for the last 10yrs, so that I never have to look at another bit of 32bit.
No help needed but thank you anyway.

Hello people,
I just want to say “thank you” for this really great Linux-distribution! My (in my terms) not so very old laptop (about 15 years) was urgently in need for a new operating system, since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS wouldn’t have let me upgrade anymore to the next LTS. This is more than a year ago, and I had only left little spare time to find a good solution. I looked around… searched… tested. Nothing was convincing on this machine. All went as slow, as if it was a 80386-based computer and not a 1,4GHz machine. They don’t seem to bother about efficient and slender code anymore, in times of rapid and constantly increasing size and speed of new hardware. And then, finally I got what I was looking for: antiX. I coincide with its way of keeping things simple as possible, nevertheless cute and well designed. I really dislike the “modern” attitude, to replace everything which is older than 2 years without any really good reason, but I was nearly arrived at the point to give way the idea of not being able to find a secure and at the same time convenient system for my old but fast equipment. This changed the moment antiX came to my attention. Thank you very much again!
Originally this notebook was shipped with Windows XP, and as long as it got regular updates from the manufacturer there was no reason to raise difficulties by changing anything profoundly (“never touch a …”). Then I switched to sidux, and most things worked. But it was rather time-consuming to manage, often something stopped working all of a sudden and since I have to use this notebook and not to play around with re-installing previously well-oiled things after they got broken by an update… I changed to Ubuntu, expecting a long period of time without the need of reinstalling something. But this was a great mistake. They told me, not even two years later, on the upgrade-screen, that my Machine wouldn’t met the requirements any longer for the upgrade. So I had to stay with the insecure outdated system for a quite long time. Not one of the better feelings, this…

So here’s the technical part of the story. I’m going to tell it in detail, since it might help other users to sail around some problems I encountered while setting up the system.
It is a RIM 2000, with an Intel 915 Pentium M processor at 1,7 GHz, 2GB RAM and 100GB HDD, Nvidia Go6600 Graphics, 1440×900 Screen, built in the early 2k-years (2005 I believe). It has internal Bluetooth, IrDA, built-in TV-card, surround audio-out, headphones, line-in, microphone-in, s-video in and out, external monitor SUB-D-connector, internal speakers, DVD-burner, firewire and internal phone-line modem, SD-card reader, and PCMCIA-slot.
The realy great thing is: All the standard functionality worked out of the box in – and that’s the drop of bitterness – in antiX 17.4, not in the actual antiX 19.1. It is some months ago when I first started the migration to antiX, and so the recent “Manolis Glezos” wasn’t out yet. I’ll give it a try again in the next few months. There was literaly no way to get antiX 19.1 to boot (double-checked the ISOs with its sha-sums). After using some bootcodes I ended up on a washy and blurry desktop, and the system perseveringly refused to accept the correct graphics-settings for my screen. And no Nvidia-drivers around to mend it. So I went back to antiX 17.4.1, which started up perfectly. Checked: Graphics (using noveau): OK. Keyboard OK. Wireless: OK. Sound OK. So I made an USB-stick in order not to touch the installed system until I had checked the rest of its features. Your USB-technique is great, I just write from the live-persistent system, fully configured. Soon it will be installed on the hard-drive finally.

I’ll call it a day for now. But I’ll try to continue my writing here for interested people, what I experienced while making things work in detail, configuring, updating, installing the meltdown/spectre-kernel and so on. I have some special needs, which had to work on the notebook: – musical notation – and MIDI. Let my say so much: It works like a charm in antiX.

Yours
Robin

PS: I apologize for some strange inflexions, I’m not a native speaker in English language.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Robin. Reason: orthography

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Moderator christophe]

artwheat, my understanding of etcher is that it doesn’t make an antiX live-usb capable of persistence saved back to the usb drive.

IF you are still unsure on how you want to procede, perhaps this will be to your liking. It is a 2-step process (broken down further for clarity):

1. use an old, small usb-stick to make an etcher-made antiX live-usb (2 GB or bigger should work fine).
2. boot that antiX live-usb (without persistence).
3. once you have automatically booted up into antiX, plug in your 32 GB antiX usb-stick (that you want to make as your primary antiX Live system).
4. click the start menu >> Applications >> antiX >> Live USB Maker.
5. Live USB Maker will detect your 32 GB stick. Check the box that says “Clone running live system.” (Or just use the ISO you downloaded earlier, as the source ISO). Also, the “Make full-featured live-usb” should already be checked as default.
6. Run the program. It will make the new, full-featured live usb, capable of running live & saving back to the 32-GB stick.
7. Shut down the computer; unplug the original (non-persistent) usb; start to computer once again.

Now the usb will be “able” to save your persistence back to the stick, without touching the hdd/ssd.

Now, upon your first boot of your new full-featured live-usb:

As caprea wrote:

You have to chose the customize boot as replacement for the F-keys

that is, you have to set persistence options. Also, it’s a good practice to SAVE the options you pick, so they will be remembered.

There’s a video about uefi-live-usb, it’s still antiX15, but hopefully will help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJmukS-bSxw

And as masinick wrote:

Try reading http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/live-boot/persistence.html

If you have additional questions, quote the item(s) you do not understand and we will follow up with you.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by christophe.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by christophe.

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

I’ve downloaded antiX-19.3_x64-full.iso to my Mac and flashed it to a 32GB USB 3.0 using Etcher. I want to run Antix from my USB with persistence for now.

When I boot to USB, it does not give me any FKeys to choose options. I’m worried that if I choose install, it will overwrite my Mac hard drive. I’ve been going to FAQ, and Video’s looking for my own answers without any luck to the following three questions:

1) Why don’t I see any FKey options before install?
2) Will I be given a choice where to install or will it automatically overwrite my hard drive?
3) Can I install to my USB or do I need a second one to install to and is that different than USB with persistence?

I want to boot from a USB and run Antix from it without fear of over writing my hard drive. It would be great if I could access the hard drive and save some files to it, utilizing any free space, without overwriting any other files on there but that would be a bonus and not what I’m expecting.

Grateful for any help!