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

[christopher]

Thanks, I will give it a go
Chris

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, 16:40 Wayland Sothcott via Colchester, <
colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
>
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>
> 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
>
>
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