Creating an installation DVD

In order to create an installation DVD, you'll need a computer and a DVD recording software. Some operating systems, like Windows 7 or most GNU/Linux distribution, have built-in utilities for this task. For others, you may need to use a third-party software package. Please check your operating system manual for more information.

Creating an installation USB pendrive

Under Windows

1. Download and install an application for writing images to USB pendrives. Ex: Win32 Disk Imager.
2. Identify the drive letter of your USB storage.
3. In the application installed at point 1, select the flexVDI-2.2.4-x86_64-USB.img ISO image that you downloaded, and the USB storage drive letter.

Under a GNU/Linux distribution

1. Identify your USB pendrive device by using fdisk -l or gparted (or an alternative method you prefer).
2. Make sure this device is not currently mounted, by running mount from a terminal or checking it in your desktop.

3. As superuser, or with sudo, use dd to write the ISO on the USB storage. Assuming the device for the latter is /dev/sdc, the command would be something similar to this:

   
   

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   sudo dd if=flexVDI-2.2.4-x86_64-USB.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

4. Also as superuser or with sudo, run sync from a terminal to be sure all data is written to the USB storage.
5. Extract your USB pendrive.l