Rufus works fine with the latest MX15 and AntiX 15 releases, as well as working fine with most popular linux distributions. Here's a direct link to the latest 2.8 version for Windows, to avoid any confusion So, be careful that you have scrolled down on the page and are selecting a link that is really for Rufus. More about it here:īut note that some of the download links on that site are from adverts trying to get you to download other software. So, I would suggest using Rufus from within Windows to write the distros being discussed to a USB Flash drive, so that you can boot into them. iso images on both traditional mbr setups, as well as UEFI systems.Īs a result, some newer distro images will not work when burned to a flash drive using those older utilities. iso files using different boot methods, so that they can work as hybrid. See more about it here:īut, many newer distros have switched to. See more about it here:Īnother popular choice over the years is the Universal USB installer from PenDriveLinux.

Unetbootin is one of the more popular choices. There are many different applications that are designed to create bootable USB flash drives form a Linux.

It's clear no recent windows version is going to work on it.īut if this PAE thing is going to be a problem then it might not be worth the time and effort. So is it worth even putting in the time to get it to work. JimC, i dont really want to spend any of my scarse funds on this aging thing. Not to find that USB proggy to make it bootable.

Pendrive universal usb installer