Good usb burner

[vinoman]

IS there a good usb burner? most don't work well and the only ones I can use are isousb and suse imagewriter that i used in Manjaro. Can I install any of these in MX Linux? Thanks

[Jerry3904]

Did you try MX Live USB maker?

[vinoman]

No, I'll give that a try. Thanks.

[vinoman]

... didn't work. Looks like it didn't format the usb stick before installing the iso. Didn't show the name of the distro, just said live usb. Any ideas why?

Suse Studio Imagewriter in Manjaro has been the one that always works. Maybe I can get yours to work.

[Eadwine Rose]

Uhm... what are you trying to do?

Installing MX onto a USB stick or making a liveUSB to install MX onto a harddrive?

[BitJam]

... didn't work. Looks like it didn't format the usb stick before installing the iso. Didn't show the name of the distro, just said live usb. Any ideas why?

What are you trying to do? [Ninja'ed by Eadwine] If you want to make an MX or antiX live-usb then (mx-)live-usb-maker is the way to go. If you want to make a live-usb of another distro, we offer the "dd" option to just copy the .iso file byte for byte to the usb-stick. There is also the dd-live-usb command line script that does the same thing.

There should be no need to clear or format the usb stick before doing the dd. The live-usb-maker also does a good job of removing all partitioning before it creates a live-usb. If, for any reason, you want to clear out all of the partitions of a usb-stick, you should be able to with this command:

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sudo live-usb-maker partition-clear

When you say "didn't show the name of the distro" what was it that didn't show the name? If you are making a "dd" live-usb then we just do the "dd" command without trying to open up the iso to see what is inside. We rely on the iso file name to indicate what's inside.

One way to check (besides try to boot the usb) is to run the command:

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lsblk -o name,fstype,size,label

When I did that, an antiX "dd" live-usb I had created showed up as:

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NAME   FSTYPE     SIZE LABEL
[...]
sdd    iso9660   29.9G antiXlive
├─sdd1 iso9660    956M antiXlive
└─sdd2 vfat       3.3M antiX-uefi

The filesystem type is the read-only filesystem from the iso. The antiXlive label was created as part of making the iso file.

HTH

[vinoman]

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.

[Jerry3904]

Suse is not Debian based, right?

[asqwerth]

Search for imagewriter in synaptic, without the word SUSE. It might be in the repos, IIRC

But I don't see why the dd option in mx live USB writer won't work

[Kulmbacher]

or search for mintstick in synaptic, = USB Image Writer...