How to install linux mint to a usb drive
- #How to install linux mint to a usb drive how to#
- #How to install linux mint to a usb drive manual#
- #How to install linux mint to a usb drive portable#
Select your language and click on Continue. The Linux Mint 19 installer should start.
#How to install linux mint to a usb drive how to#
In this section, I will show you how to install Linux Mint 19 on your computer.įirst double click on Install Linux Mint icon as marked in the screenshot below. You should be booted into the Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon Live DVD. Select Start Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 64-bit and press. Once you select your USB drive from the BIOS, you should see the following window.
#How to install linux mint to a usb drive manual#
Please check the manual of your Motherboard for more information. It depends on the motherboard of your computer. Usually you press F2 or Delete or some other keys just after you pressed the power button of your computer. Now you have to select your USB drive from the BIOS of your computer. First insert your USB drive to your computer. Now that you have a bootable USB drive of Linux Mint 19, you can boot from it and install Linux Mint 19 on your computer. Once it’s completed, you can click on CLOSE. It should take a while for the process to complete. Otherwise, make a backup of your data and try again. If you don’t have anything important on your USB drive, click on OK. If you don’t know what it is, just leave the default and click on OK.Īll the data of your USB drive should be erased. Now click on START as marked in the screenshot below. Select your Linux Mint 19 iso file you just downloaded and click on Open. Rufus should detect and select it as you can see from the marked section of the screenshot below.Ī file picker should be opened.
#How to install linux mint to a usb drive portable#
Scroll down a little bit to the Download section and click on Rufus Portable link as marked in the screenshot below. Making Bootable USB Drive from Windows:įrom Windows, Rufus can be used to make a Linux Mint 19 bootable USB drive.įirst go to the official website of Rufus at and you should see the following window. Once the process is completed, you should be able to boot from the USB drive. Make sure you check with sudo lsblk before you run this command. $ sudo dd if=~ /Downloads /linuxmint- 19-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso of= /dev /sdb bs=1M If you have a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora etc installed on your computer, you can make a bootable USB drive of Linux Mint 19 “Tara” with the following command: I am going use Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Cinnamon BETA in this article. Linux Mint 19 “Tara” XFCE BETA can be downloaded from Linux Mint 19 “Tara” MATE BETA can be downloaded from Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Cinnamon BETA can be downloaded from When the stable version of Linux Mint 19 will be released, you can download an image of Linux Mint 19 from In this article, I will show you how to make a Linux Mint 19 bootable USB drive and install Linux Mint 19 from it. Stable version should be released at the end of June according to Linux Mint’s blog. Linux Mint 19 also has images for MATE and XFCE desktop environment.īeta version of Linux Mint 19 is available for download at the time of this writing. Linux Mint 19 features a nice looking Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint 19 also has some extra softwares. So all the software that is available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is also available on Linux Mint 19. Linux Mint 19 codename Tara is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu Linux distribution.