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Barrowman
Great idea Robin. If it had read that way it would not have caused me a problem.
Brian Masinick
See also https://antixlinux.com/the-most-extensive-live-usb-on-the-planet/
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Brian Masinick
caprea
It should read “For ISOs of distros other than antiX/MX use image mode dd” instead.
Yes, this is probably still the wording when live USB maker was only available on antix and MX.
ModdIt
Hi Robin, all following,
my experience to date is that iso 2 usb from fdroid store creates
fully working antiX Live sticks.
I have not tested every single possible option from antiX tools, there are just too many.Been using the tool to create sticks for installation because very convenient, just needs
a cheap USB adapter in most cases.Really nice to demonstrate how easy it is to get a linux live running on a user device.
Hash Droid, also from fdroid store is also very useful, I never accept any ISO without
sha256 sum check.Hi Robin, other readers,
To get a completely functional antiX live stick.Boot a live (or installed) system created using Iso2USB, method as above, using
the antiX usb creation tool write your ISO of choice to a second stick.This might be problematic on any very low memory devices. I was unable to test
as none working and available at present.
marcelocripe
Hello Barrowman.
The How to “>Create Bootable USB Device Using Ventoy tutorial is in Portuguese language, you can translate the texts with an automatic internet translator.
marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)– – – – –
Olá Barrowman.
O tutorial de Como Criar Dispositivo USB Inicializável Usando o Ventoy está em idioma Português, você pode traduzir os textos com um tradutor automático da internet.
marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma Português do Brasil)seaken64
Okay, I have read through this thread at least three times. It seems to me that the OP was trying to create a Live USB of antiX using a copy of LUM under Mint. Is that correct?
In that case, yes, you can select to create Full Featured Live USB bootable drive, since the iso is an antiX. If the OP was trying to create another bootabel Mint USB drive then they could only choose to use the “dd” mode.
After the Full Featured Live antiX uUSB has been created the OP will have the choice to use ALL the features of the bootable antiX USB drive, including saving changes to the boot settings and Persistence modes for the running live system. From that live running antiX they then have the option to INSTALL the Full system to the hard drive (Assuming that the iso used was fior the Full version of antiX).
The use of the word “installer” was incorrect in the beginning being in reference to the Live USB “MAKER”, not installer. The installer is on the Live USB once the MAKER software is used to create the Live USB.
So, the answer to the now re-phrased question is to use the Live USB Maker (aka LUM), if available to you. If not, then use another suitable live USB “MAKER”, or “burner”, such a unetbootin or Belana Etcher, or Rufus.
[In this case the OP already had LUM in use].
The question in the URL link is still “using-installer-tool” and the answer to that is you don’t use the installer tool from another distro. You use a Live USB or Live DVD to install once created with a Live USB MAKER, or burner.
Seaken64
Brian Masinick
Well, @seaken64: you probably know how I personally feel about that. On one hand, Linux Mint IS a well designed system. It looks nice, it runs reliably, and it has a creative development team. I can still remember when I had my two 32-bit systems, the Gateway 2000 17″ PA6A, which I used to take the idea of “multi-booting” to a whole new level; I had 12-13 distributions on a few occasions on that system. The other one, the Lenovo 3000 series laptop, had a version of Windows that I kept on it because I had some work that, back then, only functioned on an Windows-based operating system. I dual booted that one, but before I had that job requiring me to run Windows, I had a version of Linux Mint on the Lenovo. I did so to get to know it well, and my review back then was that for the Windows convert. back at that time Linux Mint was one of the best, though I personally preferred the MEPIS software in those days.
Nevertheless, when I’d try out very similar systems to Mint, I discovered the one thing that turned me off a bit: the appearance, the script conveniences and other features in Mint took their toll in performance. If you had a reasonably good system and you were NOT a Linux expert, good match. But if you got used to Debian, Debian Sid, MEPIS, or our best friend, antiX, all of these would handily outperform an admittedly good looking Linux Mint distribution. Later, Mint came out with LMDE, the Linux Mint Debian Edition and that was their most efficient distribution and it was also well done, but again, especially as my fairly low end systems aged, I could tell the superior performance of systems that paid less attention to appearance and convenience and more on performance. True Debian based systems and straightforward ones, like good old Slackware were particularly good at extracting decent performance out of older systems; Slackware managed to do that even running KDE, something that MEPIS could do in the past and MX Linux can do today.
So I’m biased; on one hand Mint gets high marks for helping newbies get into Linux; on the other hand, once you’re around for a while, at least in my biased opinion, I prefer distributions like ours, which have numerous tools. Once you learn the tools, you can make all kinds of performance improvements or feature changes here – the choices belong to the individual – as long as the individual can support their own twists and turns.
This is precisely what I LOVE about free software; some people reading my comments might think I’m anti Linux Mint; I’m not; it’s just not for me. But I’m very happy that it’s a choice for those who appreciate the kinds of things it does so well, and I’m a big fan of our stuff because it’s exactly the kind of system I can tweak five different ways (or more); in fact if I were still inclined, I could probably make seven versions, one for each day of the week (I won’t, that’s just an example of the degree of flexibility that is available).
Anyway, for my taste, I’ll use that bootable image to run live on occasion and create a few different instances to suit my moods, and a backup resource for if and when I destroy a system when I’m fooling around with it (that doesn’t happen often, but I DO experiment, so I do keep backup media to account for failed experiments!
As you can see, there are many different ways each one of us can use our systems, and yet we can all start with a solid foundation, regardless of where we go with it!
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Brian MasinickJust to let you all know I did get the USB stick set up with Antix and have had a quick look at it. Sure it’s different but I can see it’s use. Not had much time to try it on my old netbook yet but I will do a full install to it to give it the best chance to run at a decent speed when I get time.
Thanks for all the comments guys.
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