Make A Bootable Usb Tiger

Do you need to install Windows 10 on a UEFI-based PC? If so, you can use these two tools to create a compatible USB flash drive to complete the task.

At the time of installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the 'Windows Setup' wizard to continue with the installation process. However, if you have a device that has a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), instead of the legacy Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), it is crucial to use the correct media for the firmware type to complete the installation successfully.

You'll only be able to boot from and install Tiger if it is from that Macbook's grey restore disc. I suggest formatting the USB drive as GUID with HFS+ and using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the.

Image via arstechnica.net Step 4: Drag your USB (or a Dual-Layer DVD) drive from the list on the left into the 'Destination' box and click 'Restore' (or just click the 'Burn' button in the upper left if you're using a Dual-Layer DVD) and in 10-30 minutes (depending on whether you're using USB 2.0 or 3.0) you'll have your backup disk ready to instal on as many Macs as you like. With WinUSB, the creation of a bootable USB also takes place in just a few steps: Select your USB with “ Plug and select the USB drive ”. Right-click on “ ISO ” under “ Add Windows ”, and then on “ Next ”. Enter whatever label you want for the selected Windows distribution, then click on “ OK ” and “ Next ”. Use Microsoft's media creation tool. Microsoft has a dedicated tool that you can use to download the Windows 10 system image (also referred to as ISO) and create your bootable USB drive.

On Windows 10, you can use at least two tools to create a USB bootable media. You can use the Microsoft Media Creation Tool to download the files onto a removable storage with support for both firmware types (UEFI and legacy BIOS). Or you can use Rufus, a third-party tool that makes it easy to create a flash drive to install Windows with support for UEFI.

In this Windows 10 guide, we will walk you through the steps of creating a USB flash drive that includes support for UEFI using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool and Rufus.

How to create Windows 10 UEFI boot media with Media Creation Tool
How to create Windows 10 UEFI boot media with Rufus

How to create Windows 10 UEFI boot media with Media Creation Tool

On Windows 10, the Media Creation Tool is the option available for creating a bootable USB media to perform an in-place upgrade or clean installation.

To create a Windows 10 USB media, connect a flash drive of at least 8GB of space, and then use these steps:

Open the Windows 10 download page.
Under the 'Create Windows 10 installation media' section, click the Download tool now button to save the file.
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Double-click the MediaCreationToolxxxx.exe file to launch the setup.
Click the Accept button to agree to the applicable license terms.
Select the Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC option.
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Click the Next button.
(Optional) Clear the Use the recommended options for this PC option.
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Select the correct language, architecture, and edition of Windows 10 (if applicable).
Quick tip: If you plan to install Windows on multiple computers running 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, use the 'Architecture' drop-down menu and select the Both option to create a media that will work on both systems.
Click the Next button.
Select the USB flash drive option.
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Click the Next button
Select the flash drive from the list. (If you do not see the device, click the Refresh drive list option.)
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Click the Next button.
Click the Finish button.

Once you complete the steps, the Media Creation Tool will download the files and will create a bootable USB flash drive that you can use to install Windows 10 on computers with support for UEFI and BIOS.

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How to create Windows 10 UEFI boot media with Rufus

If the Media Creation Tool does not work or you do not want to use it, then you can try Rufus, a popular free third-party tool that allows you to create an installation media with support for UEFI devices. The utility offers two ways to make the installation media, including using an existing ISO file or downloading the image from the Microsoft servers directly from the app.

Create install flash drive with Windows 10 ISO

To create a USB media with an existing Windows 10 ISO file, connect a flash drive of at least 8GB of space, and use these steps:

Open Rufus download page.
Under the 'Download' section, click the latest release (first link) and save the file.
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Double-click the Rufus-x.xx.exe file to launch the tool.
Under the 'Device' section, select the USB flash drive.
Under the 'Boot selection' section, click the Select button on the right side.
Select the Windows 10 ISO file from the folder location.
Click the Open button.
Use the 'Image option' drop-down menu and select the Standard Windows installation option.
Use the 'Partition scheme' drop-down menu and select the GPT option.
Use the 'Target system' drop-down menu and select the UEFI (non CSM) option.
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Under the 'Show Advanced drive properties' section do not change the default settings (unless you know what you are doing).
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Under the 'Volume label' field, confirm a name for the drive — for example, 'win10_21h1_usb.'
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In the 'File system' and 'Cluster size' options do not change the default settings.
Click the Show advanced format options button.
Check the Quick format option.
Check the Create extended label and icon files option.
Click the Start button.
Click the OK button to confirm.
Click the Close button.

After you complete the steps, Rufus will create a USB flash drive to install Windows 10 on a device using UEFI.

Create boot flash drive downloading Windows 10 ISO

The tool also has a feature to download the Windows 10 ISO file, which you can then use to create a USB flash drive to install Windows 10.

To create an install media with UEFI support with Rufus, use these steps:

Open Rufus download page.
Under the 'Download' section, click the latest release (first link) of the tool to save the file.
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Double-click the Rufus-x.xx.exe file to launch the tool.
Click the Settings button at the bottom of the page.
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Under the 'Settings' section, use the 'Check for updates' drop-down menu and select the Daily option.
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Click the Close button.
Close the Rufus tool.
Double-click the Rufus-x.xx.exe file to reopen the utility.
Under the 'Device' section, select the USB flash drive from the list.
Under the 'Boot selection' section, click the arrow button next to the 'Select' option and choose the Download option.
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Click the Download button.
Use the 'Version' drop-down menu and select the Windows 10 option.
Click the Continue button.
Select the 21H1 (Build 19043.xxx - xxxx.xx) option to download the Windows 10 May 2021 Update.
Click the Continue button.
Use the 'Edition' drop-down menu and select the Windows 10 Home/Pro option.
Click the Continue button.
Use the 'Language' drop-down menu and select your installation language.
Quick note: If you are located in the United States, select the 'English' option. Otherwise, select the 'English International' option or the language that applies to you.
Click the Continue button.
Use the 'Architecture' drop-down menu and select the 32-bit or 64-bit option (recommended).
Quick tip: You can check the architecture of your computer on Settings >System >About, and under the Device specifications section, confirm whether the 'System type' is 64-bit or 32-bit.
Click the Download button.
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Select a folder to save the ISO file.
Click the Save button.
Use the 'Image option' drop-down menu and select the Standard Windows installation option.
Use the 'Partition scheme' drop-down menu and select the GPT option.
Use the 'Target system' drop-down menu and select the UEFI (non CSM) option.
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Under the 'Show Advanced drive properties' section, do not change the default settings.
Under the 'Volume label' field, confirm a name for the bootable drive — for example, 'win10_21h1_usb.'
Under the 'File system' and 'Cluster size' sections, do not change the default settings.
Click the Show advanced format options button.
Check the Quick format option.
Check the Create extended label and icon files option.
Click the Start button.
Click the OK button.
Click the Close button.

Once you complete the steps, Rufus will run the automated script to download the Windows 10 ISO file from the Microsoft servers. Then you can use the tool to create a bootable media to install Windows 10 on a UEFI device without the need for the Media Creation Tool.

When you have the USB boot media with support for UEFI systems, you can use it to launch the 'Windows Setup' wizard to perform a clean installation of Windows 10 or an in-place upgrade. However, since the 'UEFI:NTFS bootloader' does not include a digital signature for secure boot, you must temporarily disable secure boot on the motherboard firmware before you can boot into the setup. Typically, you would complete this task from within the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which you can access by hitting one of the function keys (F1, F2, F3, F10, or F12), Esc, or delete key as soon as you start the computer.

The firmware settings are different per manufacturer and even by device model. As a result, make sure to check your device manufacturer's support website for more specific instructions. After the installation of Windows 10, you can enable secure boot again.

More Windows 10 resources

For more helpful articles, coverage, and answers to common questions about Windows 10, visit the following resources:

It’s not particularly easy to create a bootable USB flash drive so you can try running Linux on a PowerPC Mac. It took me a couple weeks of research, asking questions of our Linux on PowerPC Macs group on Facebook, and experimenting before I could finally boot into Linux 14.04 from a thumb drive. I learned some lessons. I’m going to make it a lot easier for you to install Linux on your old PPC Macs.

I’ve experimented with Linux and BSD Macs going back to the Mac IIci era, and I’ve never had much luck. Back in the olden days, Linux was a text-based operating system similar to MS-DOS. Everything was handled through the command line in the late 1990s. This time around I wanted to create a “live” flash drive so I could make sure it actually worked before committing to installing Linux on a hard drive.

If only I’d had a blank CD-R or DVD-R, it would have been a lot easier!

My original testbed was a Late 2005 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 Dual with 3 GB of RAM and two hard drives, one with OS X 10.4 Tiger, the other with OS X 10.5 Leopard. It’s my most powerful PowerPC Mac, so I figured it would be a good way to take Linux for a spin.

Pick a Distro

Step one is to choose your distribution. After talking with others in our small-but-growing Linux PPC Facebook group, I settled on Lubuntu as a good starting point. Lubuntu is known for having a lighter-weight user interface, LXDE – similar to what Simon Royal used when he put LXLE on an old PC.

Ubuntu Linux has a simple numbering scheme for its versions. Version 14.04 was released in the 4th month of 2014, and 16.04 in the 4th month of 2016. That’s also the latest version available for PowerPC at present. You can download 14.04 and 16.04 from this page, earlier versions from this page, where you can also get version 12.04 for PowerPC, among many other architectures.

PowerPC distros prior to version 12.04 have separate 32-bit and 64-bit installers. The only PowerPC Macs that can use a 64-bit operating system are G5 iMacs and Power Macs. Anything before G5 can only use a 32-bit Linux. Starting with version 12.04 the 32-bit and 64-bit versions are part of the same package for Macs.

I suggest you start by downloading Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) desktop CD, which is designed to be burnt to a CD-R and give you a fully bootable way to test out Linux before you commit to it. That’s fine if you have blank CD-R media or a CD-RW disc, but I haven’t burnt a CD in years and have no blanks at present.

That was also the biggest reason I had problems. Using a USB Flash Drive was an exercise in frustration.

The USB Flash Drive Problem

I do, however, have a few 8 GB and larger USB flash drives, and there are plenty of instructions online for properly formatting the flash drive and getting the bootable ISO installed. And none of them worked on my Power Mac G5. I would spend hours trying this, that, and the other thing. Formatting the flash drive was the easy part; installing the ISO and creating a bootable system stumped me.

The only method I found that worked for creating a bootable USB flash drive with Lubuntu on it required me to use Etcher, a freeware app that takes an ISO and creates a bootable flash drive from it. However, Etcher doesn’t run on PowerPC Macs. Nor does it run on my Intel Macs with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I had to use one of my Macs with OS X 10.11 El Capitan installed, and that did the job.

In other words, you need a fairly modern Mac to create the bootable flash drive you need to launch Linux on PowerPC Macs.

I formatted the flash drive as FAT, exFAT, HFS+, Apple Partition Map, GUID Partition Map, and Master Boot Record. Etcher dutifully imaged the ISO file to the flash drive. But it wouldn’t boot.

The key is to format the flash drive using Master Boot Record and FAT. Those are not the default settings, so you’ll have to find them in your version of Disk Utility.

But It Won’t Boot

I’ve been a spoiled Mac user since 1986, and if I’d had a CD-R or DVD-R, this would have been easy. Start your Mac, hold down the C key, and it will boot from whatever is in your optical drive. That goes back to the first Macs with built-in CD-ROM drives. It’s easy, but there’s nothing nearly as easy for booting from a USB flash drive.

On most Macs, if you hold down the Option key (marked Opt on some Mac keyboards, Alt on Windows keyboard) at startup, your Mac will present you with all the bootable options on your computer. On my Power Mac G5, the options are OS X 10.4.11 Tiger, 10.4.11 Tiger Server, and 10.5.8 Leopard.

If I’d had an external USB or FireWire drive, it would have shown up as well. But no matter what I did, the USB thumb drive never showed up as an option. I couldn’t boot from it in the traditional way.

Open Firmware

Whatever the reason, my last generation Power Mac G5 will only boot from the flash drive if I startup in Open Firmware. Hold down Cmd, Opt, O, and F at startup and hold them down until text appears on the upper left corner of your display. Your modern Mac be in Open Firmware (OF, as in two of the keys you hold down to boot into it). OF is a low-level operating system with a command line interface, like the Apple II+ at work that was the first computer I used, the Commodore VIC-20 and 64 that I used at home because they fit my low-end budget, and that Zenith Z-151 PC running MS-DOS 3.3 circa 1987.

Launch OF. That can take a while, as OF tests all your system memory every time you launch it. Just hold those 4 keys down until OF tells you to let go of them.

As long as you only have one bootable USB device, such as the flash drive with Lubuntu or an external CD-ROM or DVD drive, you can type in the following to boot from that device on a dual-core Power Mac G5:

boot ud:,:tbxi

and then hit Return or Enter. That worked perfectly with my Late 2005 Power Mac G5, but it would not work with my older 2.0 GHz dual-processor Power Mac G5s no matter what I did, and I didn’t bother to try it on an iMac G5.

If you have more than one bootable device, type devalias at the prompt, hit Return, and you will see a lengthy list of devices like this.

That was a bit of a rabbit trail for me. In the end I found the command that let me boot from the front USB port on my older Power Mac G5 – these are all equivalent:

boot usb2/disk@1:2,yaboot
boot usb2/disk:2,yaboot
boot usb2/@1:2,yaboot

But that only worked on one of my Power Mac G5s. The other three I tried simply would not boot from the flash drive. This was an exercise in frustration!

Making a Bootable Linux Hard Drive

Once I saw that Lubuntu ran decently on my ancient Power Mac G5 Dual, I knew that I wanted to install it on a hard drive so it would boot more quickly and allow me to add more software. That would have been easy on the Dual, but I didn’t want to reformat either of its hard drives, so I went through my small collection of older Power Mac G5 models in search of one that would boot from the flash drive so I could easily reformat its hard drive and install Lubuntu.

When I finally got one up and running – the third one I tried (the first one wouldn’t even boot, the second wouldn’t boot from the flash drive) – I started the installer. I really appreciate the concise, thorough, helpful explanations of what each choice means. It’s the kind of polish we don’t see with the Mac OS; Apple knows that most of us just want it to run. Ubuntu knows that we are interested in making informed decisions and that it needs to educate us through the process. Nice!

Or so it seemed. Then it wanted to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04, but every time I tried to do that, it nattered at me about removing certain files using sudo and compressing other files – neither of which I am able to do. How can I remove 35.6 M of files when I don’t even know what’s necessary?

Okay, I should have just started with the Lubuntu 16.04 ISO, but I didn’t know it at the time. If you want to try Linux on a PowerPC Mac, choose the 16.04 Long Term Release (LTR) version and be done with big upgrades until the next LTR version, probably in April 2018.

If you’re just experimenting, you might want to use Lubuntu 17.04. And if you’re patient, you might want to wait until April when Lubuntu 18.04 LTR is due.

Lesson Learned: Burn a Disc Instead!

I wanted you to understand the frustration of trying to do things with a USB flash drive before telling you to bite the bullet and burn a DVD-R disk with the distro of your choosing. You can burn a CD-R, but that usually means trimming the Linux distro to fit on a disc. With DVD-R you’ve got lots of room for distros approaching 1 GB in size.

And you don’t have to use Open Firmware at all.

Booting from the DVD-R was a breeze after all the frustration I had to deal with creating a bootable flash drive and then actually booting from it. I wiped the 80 GB drive in a 2.0 GHz dual-processor Power Mac G5 with 3 GB RAM and installed Lubuntu. I ended up with a very nice, friendly, functional Linux machine that lets me run the latest version of Firefox on a 2005 Power Mac that was left behind with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard shipped in August 2009.

Is It Practical?

There are two questions to address here: Is it practical to continue using PowerPC Macs in 2018? And is it practical to run Linux on PowerPC Macs instead of OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard?

Hardware

For those who have a Power Mac G5 Quad, the last and most powerful PowerPC Mac ever, the answer is a resounding yes. With four cores running at 2.5 GHz, you’ve got comparable power to the earliest 4-core Mac Pro. This is lustworthy hardware, although not especially practical in terms of the current it draws.

Dual-processor and dual-core Power Mac G5s are competent performers, and the faster dual-processor Power Mac G4 machines are solid workhorses as well with decent amounts of power. I wouldn’t want to use a Power Mac below 800 MHz or so with Tiger or Leopard, but dual 733 MHz or faster CPUs work well enough.

There may be tasks where processing power isn’t an issue, perhaps a home file server or web server, and there even a 233 MHz iMac G3 may provide all the power you need. Using MAMP, Tiger and Leopard can be configured as Unix servers.

Operating System

If you’re wed to Mac software, Linux probably isn’t going to be on our daily driver Mac. There is a whole learning curve going to a different operating system and using primarily free open source software that may have the power of commercial apps – but you need to figure out how to access it.

But if you want to set up a machine with an up-to-date operating system and browser that can be used more like a Chromebook than a Mac, Linux could be for you. Firefox is a staple in the Linux world, and the latest version is fast with a reduced memory footprint. I can run it on my Power Mac G5 Dual nicely. Not as nicely as a 3 GHz Core i3 iMac, but nicely nonetheless.

Honestly, I would go the triple-boot route. Today I put separate Tiger and Leopard partitions on any G4 or G5 Mac I set up, usually with Leopard getting 2-3 times as much space as Tiger, depending on the size of the hard drive. To learn to live in the Linux world, I would go with two hard drives when possible – one just for Linux, which likes to partition its hard drive just so – and one with partitions for Tiger and Leopard.

Facebook: Ouch

Facebook is a remarkably bloated environment, and you’ve probably been spoiled with modern hardware or the mobile version. Even on my dual-core 2.3 GHz G5, Facebook is frustratingly slow. You can really speed it up by going to m.facebook.com instead of www.facebook.com. That puts you in the mobile version, which has its own drawbacks but runs a lot faster than the desktop version.

Conclusion

Don’t try to do it on your own. We’ve created a helpful Facebook group of people who have managed to get Linux running on PowerPC hardware and those who are learning how. Linux on PowerPC Macs was invaluable in helping me get this far.

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