To ensure that the installation guide is easily accessible even while offline installation, it is included on the live ISO in PDF format
The installation guide has step by step procedure along with screenshots of the installation process and It can be accessed by right click on desktop > Menu > Help > Installation Guide both from the live session and from an already installed OS. So, you have the help right inside the live session.
Install from DVD - Use your favorite CD/DVD burning tool to write ISO and boot from it.
Install from USB - Create a bootable USB flash drive from the ISO.
You can use YUMI to create bootable thumb drive on Windows PC
You can use UNetbootin to create a bootable thumb drive on Linux Box This method is not always successful and so it is strongly recommended to try the method mentioned below in the section "Pre-installation steps (terminal)".
Please backup all the data on hard disc to an external drive or network drive before installing xer0conf on it. Your data is your own responsibility!
UEFI isn’t supported yet, so disable secure boot from BIOS
Configure BIOS to boot from DVD or bootable-USB
Restart the computer/laptop to boot from the DVD / bootable-USB
This extract has been taken from here
For the terminal lovers, the best utility to transfer .iso to USB drive is dd tool. It is really encouraged to use this method rather than depending on third party tools which may contain adware / malware and other unwanted programs.
Insert the USB drive and open the terminal
switch to root privileges
use fdisk utility to find the USB device
The output should contain a section as follows
unhappyghost@xcoco:~$ sudo -i
root@xcoco:~# fdisk -l
Disc /dev/sdb: 8046 MB, 8046772224 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 978 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x430ed9ab
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 979 7858144+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(977, 254, 63) logical=(978, 75, 57)
So, the USB device is recognized as /dev/sdb. Make sure it is formatted in the FAT32 file system.
Unmount the partition from USB device before proceeding using the command umount /dev/sdb1
Navigate to the directory where the .iso file resides and execute the dd command as follows
root@xcoco:~# umount /dev/sdb1
root@xcoco:~# cd /media/data/iso/
root@xcoco:~# dd bs=4M if=xer0conf-xxxxxxxx.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress
2286944256 bytes (2.3 GB, 2.1 GiB) copied, 313.162 s, 7.3 MB/s
545+1 records in
545+1 records out
2286944256 bytes (2.3 GB, 2.1 GiB) copied, 501.021 s, 4.6 MB/s
root@xcoco:~#
In the above dd command "bs=4M" is optional. Its just to make it faster
There are two ways you can test the USB
Test it live on your system
To test if everything has gone right, boot your system from the USB drive. To do so you will have to reboot your system and select boot from USB and it should show you the new OS selection menu
Test it on QEMU
QEMU can help you in this. QEMU is a machine emulator and virtualizer.
Make sure qemu is installed (sudo apt install qemu)
To see a virtual machine booting from your USB Drive run the command qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the device name of the USB which may differ for you and can be verified from terminal by command fdisk -l
If you still like to use the live media in the form of DVD you could burn the ISO on the DVD using the following command
unhappyghost@xcoco:~$ cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom xer0conf-xxxxxxxx.iso