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How to create bootable USB disk

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Please can someone point me to instructions on creating a bootable USB pen drive containing Mint. I have the ISO file.

Thanks.
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Re: How to create bootable USB disk

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eugeneg wrote:Please can someone point me to instructions on creating a bootable USB pen drive containing Mint. I have the ISO file.
Stating your current operating system would be helpful.
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Re: How to create bootable USB disk

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Why ? As it happens I have an 90 day trial of Win8 installed on the HDD but I would like to boot off a USB thumb drive. Or perhaps you are asking which OS I would be using to run the software that will create the USB drive - Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
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Re: How to create bootable USB disk

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Find yourself a copy of unetbootin (for WIndows, given that you'll be using Win7 to create the bootable USB stick), install it, and run it. It's really quite self-explanatory.
eugeneg

Re: How to create bootable USB disk

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Excellent. Thanks BoscoBearbank.
wazntme

Re: How to create bootable USB disk

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I just jumped back into linux after 10 years and just did this the other day from W7

Google pen drive linux simple windows program did the trick.
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Re: How to create bootable USB disk

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Please see http://usbtux.hostzi.com/How_to and specifically http://usbtux.hostzi.com/livecd
a liveCD on usb that allows you to keep documents, wallpaper and bookmarks between reboots.
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eugeneg wrote:Or perhaps you are asking which OS I would be using to run the software that will create the USB drive
Indeed.
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