USB stick creation

This manual describes how to prepare and create a bootable USB stick from the downloadable IACBOX USB image file on both Windows and Linux based operating systems.

USB stick creation for Windows

To prepare the USB stick with a Windows operating system it is recommended to use the USB Image Tool, which can be downloaded for free from alexpage.de. Once downloaded, start the USB Image Tool to see the following window.

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Click on the USB device and then on Restore. Now select the IACBOX USB image to use for the Installation.

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Confirm this dialog by clicking on Ja (Yes) so the tool will start the copying process.

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Now the USB Image gets restored to the USB device as can be seen on the lower left corner in the screenshot above. Once this process is complete, the preparation of the USB stick for the USB installation is done. To avoid writing errors do not access the USB device during the copying process! When the copy process is completed the USB stick can be removed safely from the computer.

USB Stick Creation for Linux

When using a Linux based operating system we recommend using the dd command-line utility. Absolutely do make sure that the proper USB device is used by identifying it via lsblk, fdisk -l or inspecting dmesg.

# Commands need to be run as root
# Description: sudo dd if=<the USB Image file> bs=1M of=/dev/<the USB device>
sudo dd if=SYSTEM-xx.x.xxxxx-Release_x86_64-usb.img bs=1M of=/dev/sdX
sudo sync
# Now the USB device can be unplugged
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