Trying to create bootable usb

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Greetings to all

Really sorry to bother you, but being a simple Windows 10 user, and attempting to migrate to Linux, Ι considered Linux Mint and OpenMandriva. Mint seems pretty straightforward in its installation process. OM, on the other hand, confuses me from the start. Before anything I need to create a bootable usb, but ROSA-imagewriter, KDE isoimagewriter, SUSE Studio ImageWriter do not install in Windows and do not know how to use the dd command line (even if there is one in windows…). The installation guide excludes Rufus, so that leaves me with no options. Would it be possible to use Balena Etcher? Please do advise me on the matter!

Many thanks

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I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

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Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

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you can use ventoy

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@eteos
welcome1

Booting from USB

Windows users:
If you use other usb-writing tools as some Windows tools (e.g. Rufus) you must select the ‘dd’ mode otherwise it will truncate the volume name and break the boot process.
Balena Etcher is reported as working fine to transfer OpenMandriva ISO images to USB storage device.

:roll_eyes:

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Yes, Balena Etcher works perfectly.

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As a guy who myself came from Win10 it will take a bit to get used to OM, but once you do get used to it you’ll never go back. This is a friendly bunch her, dont be afraid to ask questions.

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I was unable to get Ventoy to work with installing OM.

For me, the Raspberry Pi Imager utility worked just fine. Just adjust the settings for a custom burn, not using the Raspberry Pi settings.

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I would reccommend to avoid Ventoy as you are new. Balena Etcher is the way to go. It’s simple , straight foward and works right the first time.

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Then Balena it is! I will let you know how it went! I kindly thank you all !!!

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Indeed Balena worked! But when booting into live OM session, the Welcome screen pops up, attempts to open, but then the window shuts down, while I get this message:
“VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting.”.
Thinking it might be an ISO problem I redownloaded ROCK (openmandriva-6.0-plasma6-x11.x86_64), but the same thing happens. I then tried Rufus witn dd. Same problem…
Read the forum posts I could find, but to be honest, I can’t understand much…
Everything else seems to be working ok though…
Maybe it’s a Live session issue? Maybe it won’t happen when actually installed? Is it due to NVidia? Should I make a new post about this? (Should I stop asking so many questions?)

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By the way some info about my pc:
MB: Asus Z170-A Rev 1.xx
cpu: Intel i7-6700K
gpu: NVIDIA GeForce RTX3060
ram: 64Gb
(OS: Windows10)

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You’re not running it in a vbox vm. Just ignore it. :grinning:

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So I guess when installed on hardware the Welcome screen should work just fine…
Thank you WilsonPhillips, and all of you once again!

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The welcome app had a problem, but it was fixed this morning. A distro-sync should take care of the problem.

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Try an internet search with these search terms:

Linux VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running

I would look for posts in VBox forum or VBox documentation.

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This thread is about bootable usb device. That seems solved.

Any other issues should get their own forum thread with a descriptive title and enough information so other folks can help you. Otherwise if you solve something here that is not in the title how will other users find it?

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And indeed so it is, my friend, so it is…

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For the posterity:
That’s totally unrelated, and the message is expected running the ISO in live mode in real hardware.

Compare the checksums is way better and more easy/quick way to dissolve your doubts :wink:

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