creating a USB bootable drive help

con19998

Hello ive been trying to create a usb to boot from ive tried the method stated and gone through 2 usb's that now cant be reset due to corruption and im wondering if theres another method.
my ways ive tried were, using rufus , using ISO mode and DD image mode

Fatih19

Can you link the tutorial you use? I've gone through the same method as well but this doesn't happen to me.

con19998

https://getsol.us/articles/installation/preparing-to-install/en/ windows install usb

kyrios

What do you mean by can't reset due to corruption ?

con19998

kyrios what I ment was after I created the usb windows could not find the usb unless I used the Disk partition tool. which is shown on the first post where most of the drive is unallocated

Justin

con19998 That's because writing the image to the USB changes it's filesystem, once you are finished installing Solus you can format it to whatever you want (FAT or NTFS) so it'll be readable in Windows.

Fatih19

Have you tried to actually boot into the USB you've made?

con19998

Yes I get kernel failed to load and the rest of the system is timing out as we speak

Fatih19

I've tried Rufus in the past once and it didn't produce this kind of stuff. I would suggest to try balenaEtcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/

con19998

okay thank you ill try that in a moment and will let you know

con19998

I got it working thank you the budgie edition had 300mb missing on download but the MATE edition works fine

Fatih19

con19998 You're welcome! Enjoy using Solus!