[How-To] Create USB-Install medias

[philm]

Windows Instructions
Download ImageWriter

Download the SUSE Studio ImageWriter
Write ISO to USB

Write the LiveCD to the USB stick.

NOTE: Windows Imagewriter.exe, unlike Linux version, does not see automatically .iso files, only .raw, but it works with any of those files without problems. That leads to manual selection described below.

• Open the downloaded ImageWriter
• If the ImageWriter won't open, you'll probably need to download the .NET 2.0 Runtime
• If you get an error right after you start the process, you may want to right-click the executable and "Run as administrator".
• Press the select button
• Type *.* in the file name box and find your LiveCD image
• Select your USB stick and click the Write button

NOTE: You may meet this error on some MS Windows versions:

If you have done above steps correctly but still get error like this system.componentModel.Win32Exception:Access is denied, try either:
       

• An opening Windows Explorer might blocked direct accessing to a physical drive. If you opened the ImageWriter from a Windows Explorer, close the ImageWriter then open it again, after opened, close every window of Windows Explorer, then try to write the ISO again.
• Use a partiton tool to delete the whole USB stick partition, to make the partition 'RAW'. (Note this will destory all you data on the USB stick and before you format it again, you won't be able to use it as usual.) After that, rerun the ImageWriter and try to write the ISO again.
  

 
Linux Instructions
Install ImageWriter

Install the SUSE Studio Image Writer.
   

• Open the pacman-gui.
• In XFCE, open the main menu, go to system, and select Pacman-Gui
• In GNOME, open the main menu, go to system, and select Pacman-Gui
• You will be prompted for the root password, enter it
• Select Install Packages and enter "imagewriter" (excluding the quotes) and click OK

Write ISO to USB

Write the LiveCD image to the USB stick

   

• Open the ImageWriter
• In XFCE, open the main menu, go to system, and select SUSE Studio Imagewriter
• In GNOME, open the main menu, go to system, and select SUSE Studio Imagewriter
• Enter the root password when prompted
• Click in the middle of the application, and navigate to where you saved your image
• Select your USB device from the dropdown menu, and click the Write button
• Reboot

Code: [Select]

sudo pacman -Syu imagewriter

[cumali]

Manjaro Live USB creation. İllustrated narrative: http://manjaro-tr.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=77&p=328#p328

[Yoyo]

Nice info 

[Ricardo]

Great!
As I did not know this method, I tried with UNetbootin and Universal USB Installer unsuccessfully ... so I had to burn DVD.

[albatsy]

This works greats with me,

Code: Bash

1. # dd bs=4M if=/path/to/manjaro.iso of=/dev/sdx

Just change /dev/sdx with your removable device, like /dev/sdb, remember the device not the partition like this /dev/sdb1

[philm]

@albatsy: dd is what I'm using to create my USB-Sticks. imagewriter does the same, just with a GUI.

[petrherynk]

I have successfully installed manjaro with dd copy. I am new member of manjaro community, a nice distro. I have no difficullties. Good work.

[Fandangio]

Thanks for the link to Suse Image Writer, I installed Manjaro to a USB this morning and it works perfectly.

[Carl]

Added on wiki.

[philm]

Great news Carl.

[fabdo]

but can i do also with the SUSE Studio Image Writer an live-usb with persistent???
i find no options? or with the terminal?

[ringo32]

My only experience on Unetbootin  with my used USB stick, you have to do first a format by (gnome) Disk utility on MBR then Fat !  then with unetbootin i had always some iso, but is not so good like imagewriter imagewriter is nice and has to do less job then unetbootin and the gui is simpel and make your startup in usb nicer then unetbootin too that tool is used by mint too, only they forked it

[Just4n]

How do you install multiple OS's to one usb? Do I have to erase one OS and write another one or can I have them all on there at once?

[ringo32]

i dont know mayby look at this   http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=688.0

[dicktater]

Just4n,

Be sure to read the entire thread for ringo32's link!