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  • ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Appreciate the link!

    Rufus is what the instructions said to download and then a list of prompts to enter in the command line. I understand none of those prompts, literally a completely different language.

    I am using an old laptop that has windows 7 on it. Figured it didn’t matter if I screwed that up since it was old and not in use.

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      10 months ago

      What instructions are you following? Last time I used Rufus on Windows, it had a graphical interface with reasonable default settings and zero messing around on the command line. (I mean, I sometimes did once I was booted into Linux, but I was using distros where that’s not unexpected.)

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              10 months ago

              Let us know how it goes, and if you have any further questions, feel free to give us a shout!

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            10 months ago

            I wanted to add an additional reply thanking you again for the screenshots.

            These visuals helped put the worded instructions in context for me so I was successful in creating and installing the bootable drive.

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          10 months ago

          I wanted to add an additional reply thanking you again for the screenshots.

          These visuals helped put the worded instructions in context for me so I was successful in creating and installing the bootable drive.