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How to do a full legacy-bios install onto USB stick from live desktop shortcut.
Mouse1:
The approach I referred to in my last post was created for Ubuntu by the Fernhill Linux Project. I have found the associated video :
I would be very grateful if someone would have a look at the video and written instructions and say whether they think it would work on Linux Lite.
Please not that this approach to creating a full USB installation probably only works if a live USB/DVD is booted on a legacy bios computer and installing for a legacy bios computer. (If used on a UEFI computer it may lead to installation on your boot hard disk because UEFI computers only allow one system partition (ESP) at a time on any given computer).
Kind regards
Mouse
Mouse1:
--- Quote from: stevef on March 12, 2023, 11:48:21 AM ---The only 64bit BIOS motherboard I have available doesn't have enough computing power to run LL6.2 effectively so I can't test your proposed install - sorry.
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Thank you very much for looking into this. No worries, maybe someone else will know or be able to safely test.
I have found someone else attempting a very similar thing I think on Ubuntu here.
If it works on Ubuntu, will it work in Linux Lite?
--- Quote ---Would a live (or a USB persistent) not work as a fall back ?
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There is some Windows software I'd ideally like to run, which I guess would need Wine. Wine and associated software is probably most easily installed from a fully installed version of Lite?
--- Quote ---Good luck with your project.
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Thanks very much indeed.
Mouse
stevef:
The only 64bit BIOS motherboard I have available doesn't have enough computing power to run LL6.2 effectively so I can't test your proposed install - sorry.
Would a live (or a USB persistent) not work as a fall back ?
Good luck with your project.
Mouse1:
My apologies for not including this information in my post.
--- Quote from: stevef on March 12, 2023, 03:15:43 AM ---What Linux Lite image are you proposing to use ?
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The current version, Version 6.2. Which is the version I am currently using in persistent live form. I was planning, subject to advice, on using the Lite Live Desktop installation shortcut to do this. So the exact image I guess is determined by that? The ISO I created the persistent live USB from was: linux-lite-6.2-64bit.iso.
--- Quote ---What age is the proposed hardware and what version of Windows does it currently run ?
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* Computer: Dell 8300 i7-2600 @3.4Ghz, x64, bought in c2010. USB 2.x, SATA (v2 I think) and PCIE 2.x
* OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, SP1
* Graphics: Using built in graphics, for now, but for the future am interested in using a Nvidia GTX 1060 card which I have access to, and which the hardware database suggests people have used.
Though I understand USB 2.x is far from ideal, the installation is mainly a backup strategy and it runs at an acceptable rate as a persistent live USB. The original windows installation is beginning to cause problems, and I need a fall back in case failure becomes terminal. (I have a full data backup and boot disk clone, but the system was a bit unstable when the clone was made. I am trying to avoid the need to buy and configure a new computer in the middle of a project).
Many thanks and kind regards
Mouse
stevef:
What Linux Lite image are you proposing to use ?
What age is the proposed hardware and what version of Windows does it currently run ?
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