USB demo/installer: Difference between revisions

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This very flexible product has three prerequisites:

(caution) insert USB media and run "lsblk" to ascertain it's drive letter - sd(x)
- getting this wrong can result in the existing OS being overwritten
(advisable) clear the USB drive - "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd<your drive USB letter>
unzip <refind...zip> | dd of=/dev/sd<your drive letter> bs=4M

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 ==Getting Technical ==
 === rEFInd ===
-This very flexible product has two prerequisites:
+This very flexible product has three prerequisites:
 *computer having modern, UEFI, firmware
 *user having modicum of command line skill
+*USB flash media, of at least 8 GB (USB3 preferred)
 The product is available from:
 [USB-image,http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.12.0/refind-flashdrive-0.12.0.zip/download]
+*(caution) insert USB media and run "lsblk" to ascertain it's drive letter - sd(x)
+**getting this wrong can result in the existing OS being overwritten
+*(advisable) clear the USB drive - "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd<your drive USB letter>
+*unzip <refind...zip> | dd of=/dev/sd<your drive letter> bs=4M