I was hoping somebody could help with an issue I’m having with making bootable Manjaro versions for testing please?..
I’ve made other bootable versions of Linux and never had these issues before so a little confused on what to do next…
I’m using Rufus to create the bootable versions and every time I create them the USB seems to get corrupted and I reset it again and try again and the same problem repeats…
Set up the USB’s 3 different times for each with both ISO’s on a 8GB and a 16GB usb’s….every time I create them it converts both usb’s to the same size of a 4GB USB (though it says 3.82MB free of 3.97MB after conversion)…
The ISO’s downloaded are both from the main site, used both Normal download and Torrent download but both having the same issues…
The 2 ISO downloads are: manjaro-kde-20.1-200911-linux58.iso and manjaro-gnome-20.1-200911-linux58.iso …
If someone could help please it would be much appreciated…
Sorry not very computer literate but…
omano is DD is that direct download from Manjaro site, if so tried that but no luck as giving the same issue…
yawanathan what is “used the program that is installed, the suse based one”
Sorry guys if both are silly basic questions
And for me ventoy is the best : only copy .iso files in “ventoy” usb
is in manjaro repo; install with pacman/pamac and create usb “ventoy -i ...” (-g for uefi)
No, DD is literally an option at the moment you create your USB bootable key within Rufus.
If you don’t see the DD option for the copy in Rufus, either because you don’t find it or because it is removed now, then don’t waste your time use Ventoy.
Also this one (Suse Image Writer) works great, drop the iso, select your USB and go
I follow this simple rule of thumb: balenaEtcher for Linux isos, Rufus for Windows. Rufus always had issues with Linux isos in my experience, or was unreliable at best. You’re better off usign Etcher, never had a single problem with it, you can find it in the repos.
thanks so much again for all your efforts but no luck still…
I managed to get Ventoy to work with several other distros but couldn’t get it to work with Manjaro…as soon as I put it on it corrupted the USB again
ummm! sorry…I think I left out an important thing from what I’m seeing from the help I think everyone thinks I’m using a Linux distro already but no I’m on W10 still and wanting to move to Linux so testing several out of all the versions available and I’m really liking Manjaro alot but I can’t get it to install which is frustrating as I really want to use it so much…
thanks for this…yeah it looked like Etcher was going to work but again it corrupts the usb type of thing with both USB’s showing the same info but both different sizes…
i use a single large capacity USB stick and install ventoy.
with ventoy everything becomes easier. you have as many iso you can and simply copy them to the usb stick [from whatever environment you are… example windows / linux / mac].
boot of the usb to show up ventoy listing the iso you wish to boot off from.
i have multiple iso on single usb stick. hope this helps.
advantage is you dont need to do dd OR use rufus or any third party to created bootable usb. you just download and copy to the usb which shows up as you plugin and then reboot from that ventoy stick which lists the different ISOs
Rufus is a typical Windows tool - and the resulting USB is confusing for the vast majority of Windows users.
Mostly there is nothing wrong - but the complete lack of files - except for the EFI (4mb) partition - drive Windows users to edge of insanity - until they realize or ask like you do - the primary partition is unreadable by Windows because it is formatted using ext4.
How is it more available for Windows, I see downloads for Windows and Linux.
I have not tried Etcher, but if it is good and works well for both systems, that is a good reason to use Etcher, since you don’t need different software for Windows and Manjaro.
