Hello everybody,

my english is not so good because I'm German. So sorry for any mistakes.
I want to install AntiX to an Asus Eee PC 4G Surf for a friend. It has no extra RAM or things added.
I download an AntiX-ISO and burn it on CD to test it on my working-PC and there were no problems. But I have no extern CD/DVD device. So I tryed to created a life-usb. I formated a 4GB usb-stick and tryed to create a Life-usb with multisystem but non of my computers boots from it. I have chanced the bootpriority in the bios, before testing the usb-stick. I checked if it is marked bootable and in PartedMagic the partion-master say it's bootable marked. So I tryed to created a life-usb from the life AntiX but it also did not boot. After that I tryed to create it with unetbootin form PartedMagic, but it also don't work.
I don't know what else can I try. I read about using the dd-command
but I do not know if the AntiX-Iso is an hybrit-iso. Is there any other possibilities to get that usb-stick working as an life-usb-stick?
I'm working for a while now with other Distos now but I'm not very good at it and have still to learn a lot.

have a nice day
Ratte

That command you posted, can not be copied directly to your terminal window.

In your case, you would use something like:

hybrid_iso_image.iso, from that command, is really the location and name of the antix file you have downloaded.

/dev/sdc is the name of the device (usb-stick) you want to install to. it is not always named sdc, it can be sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, and so on.

Well, I think that is what you did wrong, but I might be wrong...

Welcome aboard Ratte.

Using dd is the best way to create a live pendrive; when doing so, it will overwrite everything on the pendrive.

However, if you use dd then you do not get the option to run persistence. Unetbootin should work ok. What 'didn't work' exactly when you tried it?

Hallo,
thanks for the help.
I know that I have to chance some parameters to that command, if I will try the dd command, but thanks for the remainding me.
I don't try the command dd yet.
I tried the gui-programms and there the stick does not boot. The computer is booting form hd. I set to boot first from usb-device in the bios, then reboot the computer and it's booting from hd. There is no mistakes to see. On my working computer I see the grub-menu of my harddrive. On the laptop of my friend its starting the old OS.

The unetbootin runs so it seams to with no problems. I do not know where the problem is. Only booting from the usb-stick does not work.
If there are some reported failers in Unetbootin where can I find them? Where is the log, maybe that will help?
Maybe I did something wrong in the bios but I don't know.
I don't care about things like persistence on that usb, I only wanna install AntiX on that laptop of my friend.


ratte

Shouldn't you set the bios to run from usb and then let it continue, no need to reboot. eg Press F12 (or whatever) with the stick already in, choose device press enter and it should automatically boot from the usb device.