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Install Windows/Linux OS from a bootable USB Pendrive created using Rufus tool
If you want to install Windows OS or Linux OS in your computer using a USB Pendrive, then you need software Rufus to do so.
Download Rufus : https://rufus.akeo.ie/
You need to have ISO image file of Windows/Linux OS installation disc image in order to create a bootable USB pendrive using Rufus tool.
CREATE A LINUX OS BOOTABLE PENDRIVE
- Insert a USB pendrive of size 4 GB or more into the computer.
- Start “Rufus”
- Select the pendrive in “Device” menu, in which you want to create the bootable USB pendrive
- Click on Icon as shown below
- Select the Linux OS ISO image file
- Click “Start”
- If shown this message click “OK”
- Click “OK” to start creating bootable USB pendrive
- When completed click “Close”
- Linux OS bootable Pendrive created which can be used to install Linux OS
CREATE A MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS BOOTABLE PENDRIVE
- Insert a USB Pendrive of size 8 GB or more into the computer
- Start “rufus”
- Select the pendrive in “Device” menu, in which you want to create the bootable USB pendrive
- Click on Icon as shown below
- Select the Windows OS ISO image file
- Click “Open”
- Click “Start” to start the creation of bootable USB pendrive
CREATE A LINUX OS BOOTABLE PENDRIVE
- Insert a USB pendrive of size 4 GB or more
- Start “Rufus”
- Select the pendrive in “Device” menu, in which you want to create the bootable USB pendrive
- Click on Icon as shown below
- Select the Linux OS ISO installation file
- Click “Open”
- Click “Start”
- Sometimes Rufus will download files from internet for Linux OS
- Click “Yes”
- Click “OK”
- Click “OK” to start creating bootable USB pendrive
- Linux OS bootable USB pendrive is being created
- On completion click “close”
- Linux OS bootable installation USB pendrive created
Settings To Do After Installing Linux Mint 17 Qiana MATE
After installing linux mint 17 MATE edition there are some good settings that can be done . I am merely suggesting you to do these settings. Your computer needs to be connected to Internet. Better you have a fast Internet. Enter password whenever asked during the whole process.
- Start Control Center
- You can do a lot of settings
- Start the terminal
- We need to install some themes and icons before we are able to use it.
- To do so write these in terminal. Press “Enter” or “Y” whenever asked during installation.
THEMES
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install ambiance-radiance-colors
- sudo apt-get install mediterranean-theme
- sudo apt-get install ambiance-lime
- sudo apt-get install mintx-colors-gtk-theme
- sudo apt-get install delorean-dark
ICONS
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
- sudo apt-get install faience-icon-theme
- Open appearance from “Control center”.
- Click “Customize” as shown below.
- Select a theme.
- Select a “Windows border” theme
- Select a “Icon set”
- Select a “pointer”
- close window
- Start synaptic package manager
- Search “times new roman”
- Right click “ttf-mscorefonts-installer” .
- Select “mark for installation”.
- Click “Apply”
- Goto fonts tab .
- Select “Arial” font as shown below.
- Close window
- start desktop settings from “control center”.
- Select which icon you want to see in desktop.
- Close window
- Start “notification settings” from “Control center’
- Select position ” Top left”.
- close window
- Start “preferred applications” from “control center”
- Select default applications
- When done close window
- Start “Screensaver preferences”.
- Select screensaver.
- Select other options as required.
- Start “disks” from “control center”
- here you can see all the hard disks and partitions
- here i will do settings to automount partitions . When linux boots , it does not mount some partitions be default. It better you do settings to auto mount some partition that you use.
- You can see star mark in partition which gets auto mounted .
- I need partition 8 to auto mount.
- Select the partition 8.
- Click on setting icon as shown below and select “Edit mount options”
- Turn off the “Automatic mount options”
- Tick “Mount at startup” and “Show in user interface”
- click “OK”
- Now you can see star mark in partition 8 which will get auto mounted .
- close window
- Start “mouse” in control center.
- increase the mouse sensitivity
- i disabled the touchpad while typing.
- close window
- Start “power management” from control center.
- Do settings as required.
- When done close window
- Start “sound” from control center.
- By default Vlc media player is installed.
- Start VLC .
- Select Tools-> preferences.
- Tick “allow only one instance”
- Tick “Always on top”
- Select “all” as shown below.
- Untick “resize interface to the native video size”
- Select resampling quality to 8
- Select ” Sinc fuction (best quality) “
- Close window
- Right click on panel and select “properties”
- you may want to increase the size . for me 30 pixels was good enough
- you may want to change the theme of panel .
- you make the panel trasparent
- about 50% transparency.
- When done close window
- Select “add to panel’ as shown below
- there are various applets that you can add in panel
- Select “network monitor” .
- Click “Add”
- close window
Addtitionally you may install softwares. Install Variety
To install Variety in Linux Mint 17 Qiana, use the following commands:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install variety
- start variety.
- Tick “Start variety when the computer starts”
- untick all under ” images “
- Add images files or the folder with images
- untick “enable sharing on facebook … “.
- when done close window.
- Start “Software manager” as shown below
- Un-tick “search while typing”
Clementine is a good audio player.
- Search “Clementine”.
- Double click on it.
- click “install”
Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute external programs or scripts (either external or through built-in lua support).
- Similarly you can install others softwares.
Deluge is a full-featured, multi-platform, multi-interface BitTorrent client using libtorrent-rasterbar in its back end and featuring multiple user-interfaces: GTK+, web and console. Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
gufw is an easy and intuitive way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual port(s), and many others! HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Furius ISO Mount is a simple application for mounting ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NG image files even without burning them to disk. uGet is a download manager. uGet is a very Powerful & Lightweight download manager application with a large inventory of features. uGet is an Open Source download manager application for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+.
You also need to install flashgot downloader manager addon in firefox .
Now when you download files from firefox, you get this message . Select “Flashgot” then “uGet” . Now the file will be downloaded by uGet download manager.
- You can install more software from synaptic package manager
Search and install GNOME Nettool is a network information tool which provides user interfaces for some of the most common command line network tools i MediaInfo-gui is a utility used for retrieving technical information and other metadata about audio or video files.
Installation through terminal
Simple screen recorder Write following commands in terminal to install
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder
I-Nex is free system info tool which is used to gather information on the main system components (devices) such as CPU, motherboard, memory, video memory, sound, USB devices and so on.
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:i-nex-development-team/stable
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install i-nex
CPU-G is useful utility to show hardware information. It detects hardware and display details about everything, it shows information about CPU(Processor), RAM(Active/Inactive, Free, Used and cached), Motherboard and Chipset, Bios Details, Graphic card details, and details of installed Linux.
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cpug-devs/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install cpu-g
- Firefox font settings
- Select default font “Arial”
- To Resize desktop icons right click on the desktop icons and select “Resize icon”
- Now you can resize the desktop icons
- Update manager Preferences
- increase the Auto-refresh time
Linux Mint Debian Cinnamon – installation & configuration
Linux Mint Debian Cinnamon
System requirements:
- x86 processor (LMDE 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. LMDE 32-bit supports all x86 processors, non-PAE included).
- 1GB RAM
- 5 GB of disk space
- Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
- DVD drive or USB port
Download link
- Select your language
- Select your location
- Select keyboard layout
- Enter username and password
- Select the hard disk where you want to install Linux.
- You need to have a linux partition to install linux. I am using ext4 type partition.
- As you can see below that /dev/sda3 is already a ext4 type partition and /dev/sda10 is a swap type partition.
- To install linux in dev/sda3 double click on it .
- Select Mount point ” / ‘
- Select format as “ext4”
- Select the ext4 partition. Click “forward” to install.
- If you do not have a partition in which Linux will be installed, then click “Edit partitions”.
- gParted window will open as shown below.
- Delete an existing partition
- /dev/sda3 installed. now i get 28.87 GiB unallocated space.
- I also delete /dev/sda10 partition just to demonstrate.
- Right click on unallocated space and select new.
- Select as shown below. click “Add”
- Select another unallocated space.
- Right click and select “new”
- Select as shown below.
- click “Add”
- Click “Apply All Operations” .
- Click “Apply”
- ext4 and swap type partition created.
- Close “GParted”
- Click “refresh”
- Select ext4 type partition and double click.
- Select as shown below.
- Select ext4 type partition and click “forward”
- wait few minutes for installation to complete.
- restart.
- Start “update manager”
- Click “Install Updates”
- When asked click “Forward”
- Linux mint settings
- power management settings.
- install software from software manager.
- system monitor
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Installation & Configuration
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Select your language
- Select “yes”
- Connect to internet if possible
- Select something else
- You need to create a ext4 type Linux partition and if possible a swap partition.
- If you already have a partition in which you want to install Ubuntu, then you can select it and click “change”.
- Select “use as ” “Ext4 journaling file system”.
- tick “Format the partition”
- Select Mount point “/”
- click “OK”
- click continue
- now you are ready to install Ubuntu. Click “install now”
- If you do not have linux partition the you can create one from free space.
- I have 31001 MB free space.
- Next i will delete /dev/sda10 swap partition by clicking ” – “.
- Now I get free space of size 35434 MB.
- Select free space. Click ” + ” to create a partition.
- Select as shown below. Select type of partition is primary if possible.
- Click “OK”
- Now i have created /dev/sda3 an ext4 type partition where linux will be installed
- Select free space.
- Click ” + ” to create another linux partition of type “swap”
- Select as shown below.
- Now /dev/sda10 swap partition has been created.
- Select /dev/sda3 which is ext4 type partition .
- click “install now”
- Select your geographical location.
- Select keyboard layout.
- Enter username and password.
- Wait for few minutes for installation to complete.
- restart when asked.
- Ubuntu desktop
- launch “Software updater”
- Click “Install now”
- When asked to install extra multimedia plugins click “install”
- When asked to install additional software click “Continue”
- Launch “Ubuntu software center”
- Search a software.
- click “Install” to install the software.
- below is show video player vlc, audio player clementine and torrent downloader qbitorrent.
- Chrome web broswer
- firefox web browser
- install “adobe flash plugin” from Ubuntu software center.