Usb UEFI Compatible

Guide for installing Linux to USB with UEFI boot capabilities

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• ⬆️ Top of Document

• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

• 🧰 Usage

• 🗒 Notes

• 📈 Contributing

  • 🔱 Forking
  • 💱 Sponsor

• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ Licensing

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Requirements

This repository depends upon Jekyll which is supported by GitHub Pages, further details about setup can be found from documentation published by the Jekyll maintainers regarding GitHub Pages.

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Quick Start

Clone this project...

mkdir -vp ~/git/hub/install-linux-guides

cd ~/git/hub/install-linux-guides

git clone git@github.com:install-linux-guides/usb-uefi-compatible.git

Build with Jekyll...

cd ~/git/hub/install-linux-guides/usb-uefi-compatible

bundle exec jekyll build

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Usage

Converting .png images to .jpeg and .avif

sudo apt-get install imagemagic

convert input.png output.jpeg

convert input.png output.avif

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Converting .png images to .webp

sudo apt-get install cwebp

cwebp -q 60 input.png -o output.webp

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Notes

This repository may not be feature complete and/or fully functional, Pull Requests that add features or fix bugs are certainly welcomed.

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Contributing

Options for contributing to usb-uefi-compatible and install-linux-guides

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Forking

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is git@github.com:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/install-linux-guides/usb-uefi-compatible

git remote add fork git@github.com:<NAME>/usb-uefi-compatible.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/install-linux-guides/usb-uefi-compatible


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork gh-pages

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push -u fork gh-pages however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin gh-pages

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Sponsor

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Attribution

• GitHub -- github-utilities/make-readme

• Jekyll -- Collections -- Manually Ordering Documents

• Industrial Empathy -- Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021

• Linux Mint Forums -- Full Install to USB Drive: Four Options

• Made Mistakes -- Accessing static files in Jekyll

• StackOverflow -- Center image horizontally within a div

• SuperUser -- Linux on UEFI - how to reboot to the UEFI setup screen like Windows 8 can?

• Unix StackExchange -- Can I pass through a USB port via qemu Command Line?

• yourUncleMike -- Installing Linux Mint 18.3 to a thumb drive and configuring it to dual boot with Windows 10

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License

Guide for installing Linux to USB with UEFI boot capabilities
Copyright (C) 2021 S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further details review full length version of AGPL-3.0 License.