Question about Rufus Bootable Drive Utility

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Boris_yo

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Hello,

I created bootable USB with FreeDos option and it worked with no issues.

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Then I created bootable USB with Syslinux as boot OS and got these errors.

Am I right that for other OSs than FreeDos I need to download ISO images?

Anyone knows what happened to Reboot forum? It was dedicated to bootable OS images
like Live CD and such. I think this was its website: reboot.it
 

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Generally Syslinux is used to boot Linux images. Just doing so on it's own will get you to the unconfigured prompt you saw.
 
CrimsonKnight13 Do you know where I can get Linux, ReactOS and Grub images? I found files but they had weird extensions like pkg, tar, xz, c32, bin. They were not images.

I found Linux Mint image but its version is 20.2, yet Syslinux mentions version 4.07 and 6.04.
Does that mean Linux Mint won't work because there is no matching version and I will have to find
different Linux distribution that is available in 4.07 or 6.04 version?
 
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Boris_yo said:
CrimsonKnight13 Do you know where I can get Linux, ReactOS and Grub images? I found files but they had weird extensions like pkg, tar, xz, c32, bin. They were not images.

I found Linux Mint image but its version is 20.2, yet Syslinux mentions version 4.07 and 6.04.
Does that mean Linux Mint won't work because there is no matching version and I will have to find
different Linux distribution that is available in 4.07 or 6.04 version?
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You would use the ISO mode of Rufus for any distro. If it's iso.gz or iso.xz, use 7zip to extract the iso before flashing.
 
Boris_yo said:
Do you know where I can get Linux, ReactOS and Grub images? I found files but they had weird extensions like pkg, tar, xz, c32, bin. They were not images.
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Each Linux distribution maintains its own official site from which you can download installation images.
Boris_yo said:
I found Linux Mint image but its version is 20.2, yet Syslinux mentions version 4.07 and 6.04.
Does that mean Linux Mint won't work because there is no matching version and I will have to find
different Linux distribution that is available in 4.07 or 6.04 version?
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You shouldn't need to download a bootloader such as Grub or Syslinux. I'm confused by your question about Syslinux. The bootloader version has no relationship to the operating system version.
Boris_yo said:
Anyone knows what happened to Reboot forum? It was dedicated to bootable OS images
like Live CD and such. I think this was its website: reboot.it
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Try: reboot.pro
 
ElementDave said:
You shouldn't need to download a bootloader such as Grub or Syslinux. I'm confused by your question about Syslinux. The bootloader version has no relationship to the operating system version.

Try: reboot.pro
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It's clear now. I can flash any distro I want and replace it's bootloader with Grub or Syslinux that appear in the list?

Reboot.pro is the one I was looking for (y)
 
Boris_yo said:
It's clear now. I can flash any distro I want and replace it's bootloader with Grub or Syslinux that appear in the list?

Reboot.pro is the one I was looking for (y)
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No, every distro has their choice of a bootloader to make it work.
 
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