Creating and booting from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB Live USB] drive can be used as an alternative to the standard approach of burning and booting a Linux CD. This is particularly useful for installing Mint on computers that have trouble booting from CDs, or for those who can't or don't want to burn a CD.

== Graphical installation using UNetbootin ==

=== Summary ===

[http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ UNetbootin] provides a GUI to create Live USB drives from ISO files. To create a Live USB using UNetbootin, download an ISO file, select it under UNetbootin's "diskimage" option, and specify your target USB disk under "Drive:". After pressing OK, wait as the ISO is extracted to your USB drive; once done, you will have a bootable Linux Mint Live USB drive.

=== Downloads ===

[http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ UNetbootin] ([http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetbootin-windows-latest.exe Download Windows Version] or [http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetbootin-linux-latest Download Linux Version])

Linux Mint [http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php ISO file], if you haven't already downloaded one

=== Requirements ===

1 GB or larger USB drive, formatted as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32 FAT32] (most USB drives come formatted as FAT32 by default, but if you need to format it, on Windows, go to My Computer->right click your USB drive->format, or on Linux, use GParted or another partition manager)

Supported operating systems: ''Windows'' 2000 and above OR a modern ''Linux'' distribution

Additional dependencies (''Linux Only''): You will need the packages ''syslinux'' and ''p7zip-full'' installed (no dependencies on Windows)

=== More information ===

[http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=14209 Guide on the Mint Forums] (currently being integrated into this wiki page)

=== Screenshots ===

UNetbootin running on Linux Mint:

[[Image(MiscWikiFiles:unetbootin-linux.png)]]

UNetbootin running on Windows Vista:

[[Image(MiscWikiFiles:unetbootin-windows.png)]]