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Installing Zorin from Usb stick

xcarlittosx

Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:14:11 pm

Can someone help me install zorin onto my pc using a usb stick, ive read some tutorials and seen some videos but most of them are outdated.. im kind of naive at this :( help would be greatly appreciated :D

madvinegar

Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:22:59 pm

Hi.
You follow the following easy steps.

1) You download universal USB installer http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal- ... -as-1-2-3/ or unebootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ in order to prepare the live USB stick. Follow the instructions on the sites. It is very easy. You just need the .iso file of zorin which you download from here http://zorin-os.com/free.html
2) You set your pc/laptop to boot from USB. To do this you must access the bios settings by pressing F2 or del repeatedly at the beginning of the boot process.
3) You plug the USB, reboot and you follow the usual way of installing zorin as you would if it was done via CD/DVD.

xcarlittosx

Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:08:46 am

hmm. I get some error whenever i go onto the bootmenu and try choosing the usb stick, it just says "error"... is there any other way of doing it? :cry:

Wolfman

Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:30:19 am

Hi,

have you simply copied the downloaded ISO file to the stick or did you go through the complete process with unetbootin??, if you did, you must repeat the proces and create a bootable USB stick.

Does anything show up at all before you get the error message or does it appear straight away??.

Regards Wolfman :D

xcarlittosx

Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:02:13 pm

Well i used unebootin to put the files into the usb stick and just rebooted, went into the bootmenu, clicked the usb flashdrive and it just said "error" at the top of the screen..
idk if i followed the procedures right.. but what i did was selecting the iso and then my flash drive .. and then it did its thing and rebooted it...

Wolfman

Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:08:24 pm

Hi,

have you tried re-doing it??.

You could try one of the other methods already suggested!.

Is the stick okay??, is it formatted correctly??. (Should be FAT32)

Regards Wolfman :D