[Colchester] Try out Linux, fed up with windows 10

[Wayland Sothcott]

Hello Chris,

There are two things you must get right.

First you must /BURN/ the ISO onto the stick using a tool like Rufus on 
Windows;
https://rufus.ie/
This is not the same as copying the ISO file to the stick.

Rufus is so good I keep a Windows 7 laptop just for this purpose.

Secondly you've gotta get your target PC to boot off the USB. Put the 
USB stick into a USB 2 port on the back of the PC (a black one not a 
blue one). If you clear the BIOS CMOS of the computer first it will 
probably default to being able to boot USB. You may find it helpful to 
enter the BIOS (usually by mashing F2 when it boots) then see if the USB 
stick is showing up as a hard drive or boot device then selecting it as 
the first boot option.

Really you just have to keep hacking away at this problem until you 
figure it out. Each MoBo manufacturer does things a little differently. 
You might want to look up how it's done on your board.

Regards,
Wayland.

On 24/02/2021 16:17, christopher ransom via Colchester wrote:
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
> Windows 10
>
> Hi, I’m chris and I want to try out Linux, eventually to move from 
> windows. I have tried various sites
>
> But find them difficult to work from. I have an old PC and spare hard 
> drive. I’ve tried  to load the hard drive with
>
> A Linux ISO using a USB docking station. I loaded the ISO on but when 
> I put it in the old
>
> PC it would not boot. I have downloaded Linux before on a usb stick 
> but I want to learn how to partition this old hard drive ect. Can I do 
> it using a USB docking station.
>
> Regards chris
>
>

-- 
Sent from my Linux Mint PC

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