But for it to work, I had to download the OS X full installer from Apple's "App Store" onto my hard disk. I made it per the instructions on using their software ("Unibeast"). I have a USB which will install Mac OS X. " Once Rufus (running under Windows) creates a USB, the resulting USB can create Windows on a system that has no OS." So Rufus creates a Windows installer on a USB? Isn't Rufus doing what an original Microsoft Windows on purchased media does? And why wouldn't an accessible full copy of Windows also be required to install Windows using that USB? I ask this because: I guess I interpret that to mean something like the following: That statement is very hard for me to understand, so now I am definitely confused. "When you run it on Windows, Rufus has no trouble creating an USB with DOS, or with a Windows or Linux installer or live system, that will allow you to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed." Therefore, if you can't meet that requirement, there's not much I can do to help you out. If there's no mention of OS X or Linux, then it means that it's a Windows only application. Oh, and if you don't think this is obvious enough, you should read a bit further down where it clearly states: Utility means application means requirement for the underlying OS that the application was designed to run on (in this case Windows). Please don't ignore the "Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives" part to try to fit your narrative. That last part does exists, but is limited to UEFI boot applications and will only work if you boot that drive on an UEFI system. You are confusing an application such as Rufus that can install a bootloader (plus a minimal OS and the set of applications that go with it, depending on the options you select), and that needs to run on a specific Operating System, such as Windows, with something that can simply be copied over to a flash drive, no matter the OS you use, and will magically boot a blank system. A DOS BIOS flashing utility is an application that runs under the DOS Operating System (which is actually a redundancy since 'OS' in DOS stands for 'Operating System'), a Windows installer is an application that runs under the minimal Windows execution environment that the boot loader loads on Windows installation media, and UNetbootin is an application that (depending on your download) runs under the Linux OS or the Windows OS. If you receive errors on the above, you may need to mount another partition.Except for boot loaders, every application requires an OS to run, and Rufus is no exception. Next, you need to mount components of the file system to /mnt: lsblk -f works, as does gparted or parted -l The live USB instructions are applicable to all of the distributions below.Ĭreate a live USB with Etcher, Rufus, dd, or whatever your poison.Īfter that, you’ll want to select “Try Ubuntu without installing” to load the live environment.įind your drive with linux on it. If you use UEFI, do not use the first set of commands, scroll down please. Never fear! Trusty Ubuntu is here to save the day! (you can use whatever live environment you want, I am using Ubuntu for ease of use and familiarity) What do you do? Do you really reinstall Linux, again, and lose your precious data? You made a ton of commits last night, but never pushed your changes! So, you install Windows on an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT HARD DRIVE and, still, despite your precautions, GRUB is gone -_. But you decided to use it for something and a VM isn’t cutting it. You upgrade your OS after a week and, boom, SHTF. Suddenly, without warning, in the quiet of night, we can no longer access our Linux partition. We’re dual booting and Windows does a major upgrade.
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