LiveUSB

From Linux Mint

Creating and booting from a Live USB drive can be used as an alternative to the standard Burning ISO approach. This is particularly useful for installing Mint on computers that have trouble booting from CDs, or for those who can't or don't want to burn a CD.

Graphical installation using UNetbootin

Summary

UNetbootin provides a GUI to create liveUSB drives from ISO files. To create a liveUSB using UNetbootin, download an ISO file, select it under UNetbootin's "diskimage" option, and specify your target USB disk under "Drive:". After pressing OK, wait as the ISO is extracted to your USB drive; once done, you will have a bootable Linux Mint LiveUSB drive.

Downloads

UNetbootin (Download Windows Version or Download Linux Version)

Linux Mint ISO file, if you haven't already downloaded one

Requirements

1 GB or larger USB drive, formatted as FAT32 (most USB drives come formatted as FAT32 by default, but if you need to format it, on Windows, go to My Computer->right click your USB drive->format, or on Linux, use GParted or another partition manager)

Supported operating systems: Windows 2000 and above OR a modern Linux distribution

Additional dependencies (Linux only): You will need the packages syslinux and p7zip-full installed (no dependencies on Windows)