HOWTO: Burn bootable USBs

[galen]

MX18.3x64 works with unetbootin onto a VFAT32 USB stick.
good thing about unetbootin is that it does not do a destructive write to USB stick
and it overwrites existing boot files.
Always be on the lookout for non branded USB sticks that have dubious firmware, they can tricky to be detected upon bootup

[brolly]

an lot of folks would not be aware that the MX Live USB Maker can be downloaded from GitHub and then run on other Linux Systems.
- - which can, actually be quite an handy tool, as it does have some extra options available

Thank you for your refreshing response. tried it yesterday. I Struggled with the fact that it didn't have a gui. I could be missing something along the way

[JayM]

Did you compile it?
Scratch that, I just tried running build.sh myself and it failed with

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debuild: fatal error at line 1116:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc failed
mv: cannot stat '*.dsc': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '*.deb': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '*.changes': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '*.tar.xz': No such file or directory

Maybe it needs the .deb building apps to be installed. Its readme doesn't give instructions for building it. Hopefully Adrian will be able to shed some light on how to install LUM on other Linuxes.

[Adrian]

I would not compile mx-live-usb-maker especially not on a different distro, is not meant to run on anything else, hence the "mx-" in front. Use BitJam's live-usb-maker script: https://github.com/BitJam/live-usb-maker

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sudo apt-get update       # if needed
sudo apt-get install git  # if needed
git clone https://github.com/BitJam/live-usb-maker
git clone https://github.com/BitJam/cli-shell-utils
cd live-usb-maker
sudo ./live-usb-maker

[JayM]

Thank you. I edited the top post to reflect the correct link.