tar xjpvf LinHES_R6.XX.YY.usbstick.tar.bz2
mount -t vfat -o umask=0,quiet /dev/foo /mnt/bar (where foo is the usb thumb drive formatted as vfat and bar is the mointpoint)
cp -pa LinHES_R6.XX.YY.usbstick/* /mnt/bar
/mnt/bar/syslinux/bootinstall.sh

Follow the instructions.

A minor update. It looks like the script for that final step is now called "bootinst.sh" and you need to run the whole procedure as root to preserve the ownership of the files and directories in the image.

For R6.01.00 the procedure on my Fedora workstation box looked like this:

When I ran "/mnt/syslinux/bootinst.sh" on my R5.5 system I received the error:

I resolved this by doing the following as root:

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You can also use unetbootin from the CD's iso.

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

Im trying to get my acer aspire revo R3610 installed this way. I have tried both the usbstick.tar.gz and the unetbootin method, but I cant get it to boot from the USB stick. How should the stick be formatted? When I did it initially, I didnt have any partitions on the usbstick (it was mounted just by saying mount /dev/sdc (not /dev/sdc1) on my MBE. It started to boot into LinHES but got to a point where it said it couldnt access /dev/sda1. Now that I have a partition on the USB stick, it wont even attempt to boot from it.
Im using a 16G usb drive. Could that be a problem?

@GF - I take my suggested back... I was able to make a usb stick from the gz but I couldn't get it to boot

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well, I actually got unetbootin to make a usb that would boot using the LinHES_R6.02.00.iso
My problem all along is that I was trying to get my acer aspire revo to boot off of the usb sitck by selecting removable storage. That sort of worked when the USB sitck had no partitions (fat file system on /dev/sdc instead of /dev/sdc1), but it failed part way through the boot. When I had the stick formatted with a partition conventionally, it would not recognise it as removable storage. What I failed to notice was that it was recognised as a hard drive. So I just had to go into the hard drive menu and change its order to be before the internal harddrive and it booted.

Having said all of that, I did have some problems installing. Ill put them in another post.

Any other hints on getting a USB stick to boot/install LinHES?

I used tjc's instructions with the R6.02.00.usbstick file, as root, under Ubuntu. Tried to boot an Atomic Ant (same configuration as listed except without the CD/DVD drive, hence my needing to install from USB) and got "Boot Error." Tried Greg's trick to set the USB drive as the main boot device in the BIOS: same "Boot Error."

Ok, by changing some BIOS settings for booting USB drives, I'm able to get to the LinHES splash screen with both the usbstick file, as well as using unetbootin with the standard ISO file, BUT...

... when I boot, it just freezes at the LinHES splash screen. When I install without the splash screen, I can see what the problem is. It seems to go fine until it hits the "LinHES installation" section, where things start getting listed as [OK] or not. When it hits "UDEV" (I forget what the line says exactly), the status says [BUSY] instead of [OK] and it immediately shows a bunch of commands and freezes.

I'll search for UDEV and USB and see how that goes. Any other ideas?

Updated for R6.03.00 the procedure on my Fedora workstation box looked like this:

I used the unetbootin method too, for R6.02 i got to boot and go halfway through the install then hangs on the splash screen as well. i was able to get it to work though, i reformated the hard drive and then ran it again. i believe i hung on the splash the first goround, but rebooted then it installed normally. not sure what the problem is, but was able to get it to go.
i'm going to try it again, with the R6.03 using the usbstick.tar method.
i really think it doesn't like the setup of the hard dirve.

anyone have any updated info?

thanks.

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For R7 and future releases, the ISO will be a hybrid ISO. Burn it to CD and dd it to a USB thumb drive and that is that...

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Used dd if=/path/to/LinHES.iso of=/dev/{usb_id} to transfer the R8 iso image to a usb drive.

When it boots I get an error that says


So I mounted the usb drive and verified that isolinunx.bin is in fact there and reports

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Feb 11 11:25 isolinux.bin
[root@mythtv2 isolinux]# file isolinux.bin
isolinux.bin: data

The Md5sum is good and have used the same image to create an install cd that works fine. I looked at the install cd on a windows box and it reports that exact same file size as the thumb drive. The Thumb drive however is not readable by windows

Another way to do this, without any Unix commands, is with a tool called Ventoy.

It is a Windows/Linux program that creates a bootloader on a USB stick,
and you then just copy/drag the ISOs onto the USB stick.

Booting the PC from the USB stick lets you select which ISO to boot/install from.
I have a Ventoy stick with a few KnoppMyth/LinHES versions, and some utility distros like CloneZilla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy

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