Quirky is provided as a 8GB USB Flash stick image, or for an SD-card. Note also, q.sfs also gets copied to the hard drive, so subsequent bootups are much faster. Viable alternative to doing an actual install, on an ongoing usage Into RAM, so you can carry on from before. Note, that file isĪt next bootup from the live-CD, that s.sfs is automatically loaded back (everything that you have done, such as Internet setup, file downloads,Īpp settings, whatever) to a file on the hard drive.
That "save" icon is most interesting, as it will save your files in RAM Want, to a partition on the hard drive, or an external drive.
The "install" icon enables you to install Quirky any way you If there is enough RAM, the bootup will automatically copy the file q.sfs (which is all of Quirky) from the CD to RAM - that is why the first bootup is slow, as the file is about 400MB.Īfter bootup, you will see two icons on the desktop, "install" and When Quirky boots, he is running totally in RAM. The ISO file - Linux users usually use the 'dd' utility for this.
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But, you need to properly understand how to write Note also, it is possible to write the ISO file to a USB Flash stick,Īnd boot from that. UEFI-aware and does not require "legacy boot" to be enabled in the This is usually pretty straightforward.įor those who already know a bit about this, note that the ISO is Modern UEFI-firmware (on all PCs from 2012 onward), to boot from theĬD. You then need to configure the BIOS, either traditional BIOS or the more You need an application to "burn" the ISO file to a blankĬD-R, and there are plenty of those around, for Windows, Mac and Linux. This is what most people are familiar with, and does not need muchĮxplanation. The live-CD, the second half describes the Flash stick image file. The first half describes installation with However, choose whichever you are comfortable with. Traditionally, Linux distributions have been provided as ISO files, for Quirky Xerus x86_64 version 8.6 is deployed as a live-CD (an ISO file) and as an image file for a USB Flash stick or SD-card.
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