A manual mount of the drive is needed.įortunately, these problems can be bypassed relatively easily. Options available include direct download, torrenting, virtual machine image, netboot installation for wired connections, and more. To do this, visit the Arch Linux download Page, and depending on how you want to download the ISO, select the appropriate option. Thus, you have to be fast on turning on the USB Mass Storage mode just after the computer is launched.Īlso, after the Linux kernel is loaded and is initializing hardware, the mode is automatically disabled. The first step is to download the Arch Linux installation image from a suitable mirror. Walkman's OS 'intelligently' shuts down the Mass Storage mode if it thinks it is disconnected from the computer. The drive letter is not ARCH_201910 (name may vary based on the specific archiso version you are using). However, since the Walkman is never meant to be used as a USB drive, there's some issues: Just copy everything to the FAT32-formatted partition on the USB drive and voilà! It's that simple. Thanks to the UEFI specification, on a USB drive, it is quite simple to make an OS to boot. Changelog Fix ISO mode support for Red Hat 8.2+ and derivatives Fix BIOS boot support for Arch derivatives Fix removal of some boot entries for Ubuntu. Most Walkmans which runs the proprietary system (which is actually based on Linux 2) use this mode, but some models that uses Android does not support it (such models use the crappy MTP protocol). This mode basically turns the device into a USB flash drive. If you really want to try this, just check you have a Walkman that supports USB Mass Storage mode.

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