Good usb burner

[vinoman]

MX Live USB Maker works great. Thanks.

[Stevo]

You can also install Etcher from its developer on MX for yet another option.

etcher.io

[dreamer]

My 2 cents regarding usb writers. I'm happy with all the MX tools except MX Live USB Maker. Before I complain about MX Live USB Maker I'll tell you how good the other MX Tools are. They are the best. Period.

Let me tell you how good the antiX base/live-system is. It's the best. It should be in Technology Hall of Fame or something. The live features of antiX and MX seem file system independent. This is a huge deal and really blew my mind.

This is what I did. Like a good MX citizen I used MX Live USB Maker (latest version) to make a live USB from a snapshot. It took 19 minutes and 11 seconds in a USB3 port. To be honest I thought it wasn't working because it showed no progress during 10 minutes so I thought the process had hung in the middle. Anyway, the process finished.

I tried the stick and it felt somewhat slow. So I decided to use Rufus instead. It transferred the same ISO to the same USB-stick in less than 4 minutes. Then when I tried the stick it ran noticeably faster. I guess FAT32 is really faster than EXT4.

Because I made the stick with Rufus I thought I would be punished later on, but to my amazement the live-features do seem file system independent. Pretty amazing if this is the case.

EDIT: I just realized I must have used a USB2 port for MX Live USB Maker. OK, that might explain the time difference compared to Rufus.

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===============================================================================
Starting live-usb-maker
===============================================================================
live-usb-maker Will use target device /dev/sdb (112.7G JetFlash Transcend 128GB)
Will use source file /media/cd/SB@/home/cd/OSes/MX-17 20181214/snapshot-20181214_2311.iso

                   Total     Used    Extra
   entire drive  115,343  115,342        1  MiB
 main partition  115,292    3,131  112,161  MiB
 uefi partition       50       11       39  MiB
Ready to make live-usb on device sdb
... by copying file /media/cd/SB@/home/cd/OSes/MX-17 20181214/snapshot-20181214_2311.iso
live-usb-maker: partition-clear >> partition-clear
live-usb-maker: partition-make >> partition-make
Using msdos partitioning
live-usb-maker: makefs-bios >> makefs-bios
mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
64-bit filesystem support is not enabled.  The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming.  Pass -O 64bit to rectify.
Creating filesystem with 29514496 4k blocks and 1210944 inodes
Filesystem UUID: b67ef5fc-165d-4b14-a14c-44eee403b554
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Allocating group tables:   0/901       done                            
Writing inode tables:   0/901       done                            
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:   0/901       done

tune2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
live-usb-maker: makefs-uefi >> makefs-uefi
mkfs.fat: warning - lowercase labels might not work properly with DOS or Windows
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1      ext4  113G   60M  113G   1% main
/dev/sdb2      vfat   50M     0   50M   0% uefi

live-usb-maker: copy-uefi >> copy-uefi
copy from iso to uefi partition
files: [Ee][Ff][Ii] boot/{grub,uefi-mt} version
Fix Dell uefi memtest bug
live-usb-maker: copy-main >> copy-main
copy from iso to main partition
files: *
live-usb-maker: defrag >> defrag
ext4 defragmentation for /run/live-usb-maker/main/antiX/vmlinuz
[1/1][79;0H[K[1/1]/run/live-usb-maker/main/antiX/vmlinuz:	100%  extents: 1 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
ext4 defragmentation for /run/live-usb-maker/main/antiX/vmlinuz.md5
[1/1][79;0H[K[1/1]/run/live-usb-maker/main/antiX/vmlinuz.md5:	100%  extents: 1 -> 1	[ OK ]
 Success:			[1/1]
live-usb-maker: uuids >> uuids
live-usb-maker: install >> install
extlinux version 6.03
/run/live-usb-maker/main/boot/syslinux is device /dev/sdb1

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1      ext4  113G  3.1G  110G   3% main
/dev/sdb2      vfat   50M   12M   39M  24% uefi

>> done

live-usb-maker took 19 minutes and 11 seconds.

[tek10]

+1 for Etcher. I've been using it for more than a year, on my other system that has Debian installed, and it's worked great!

[Achined]

You can use the Live USB writer from MX but you have to choose the "dd" modus to create distribution - iso other than mx

[m_pav]

When I saw this post, I immediately thought of my 4kw blow torch because that's what I'd use if I was going to burn a USB thumb drive, however, I digress.

I still use unetbootin, it works 90+ % of the time when I want a drive that can be utilised outside of Linux, however, I have to agree with the others that for creating a MX live USB, it's near impossible to beat the MX Live USB Maker, just don't expect it to give the same features when writing any other ISO to a USB thumb drive. (note, nobody's burning anything here )

[JayM]

Thank you. I was trying to make a usb of another distro. I'll try your advice. Can you install Suse Studio Imagewriter on MX? It's very good.

1. You can use MX Live USB Maker for this. Read its wiki help page for complete instructions.
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/help-files/hel ... usb-maker/

2. You can install mintstick from the MX Stable repository using MX Package Installer. This will create two menu items under Accessories, USB Image Writer and USB Stick Formatter.

[Atlanelan]

+1 for mintstick.Such a simple and effective tool to write iso's and format usb drives.It is missing in Mx stable repo but available in synaptic.

[JayM]

+1 for mintstick.Such a simple and effective tool to write iso's and format usb drives.It is missing in Mx stable repo but available in synaptic.

MX Package Installer, Synaptic, and command-line apt all use the same repositories so if something's available in one it's available in all of them. You just need to look for it. In the case of mintstick it's found in the MX Test Repo in the package installer. Anyway, live USB maker does the exact same thing as mintstick when you burn an ISO in dd read-only mode.

[GlennJohnson]

dd if=<input file name> of=</dev/sdx>

Couldn't be simpler.

In my case my USB is usually /dev/sde so I would use something like this since I'm primarily a Fedora user:
dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-30-1.2.iso of=/dev/sde bs=4M