Make a USB Stick

Using a USB flash drive is one of the best ways to test Liri OS and it is also the only way to try it without touching your hard drives.

Running Liri OS from USB flash drives is much faster than running it from a DVD.

The following guide copies the image directly to the raw drive, replacing everything including the MBR and destroying all partitions and data that were there.

Start by downloading the live image from the download page. Get a sufficiently large USB flash drive, then follow one of the methods below.

Linux and FreeBSD

Open a terminal and find the device name of your USB flash drive:

sudo fdisk -l

You can identify the drive by size or by running the command before and after plugging in the USB flash drive.

Ensure the USB device is unmounted:

umount /dev/sd[x]

Verify the device name carefully. The next command erases everything on that drive.

dd if=/path/to/lirios-live-media.iso of=/dev/sd[x] bs=4M

Use /dev/sd[x], not /dev/sd[x]1.

Note: Some older firmware does not understand the isohybrid hack where the fake partition offset starts at 0. See this issue for a fix involving isohybrid.pl.

Windows

Download ImageWriter, unzip it, and run it.

Carefully identify the drive letter for your USB stick to avoid overwriting the wrong disk.

Rename the downloaded live image to lirios-live-image.img if necessary so it appears in ImageWriter's file selection panel.

Run Win32DiskImager.exe, select the ISO file, select the correct USB drive letter, and click Write.

macOS

Open a terminal under Utilities and find the device name:

diskutil list

Unmount the drive:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk[x]

Verify the device name carefully. The next command erases everything on that drive.

sudo dd if=/path/to/lirios-live-media.iso of=/dev/rdisk[x] bs=1m

Eject it properly when finished:

diskutil eject /dev/disk[x]