Creating an Esper Boot Drive

Synopsis:

This article will take you through creating an Esper Boot Drive. Please have a USB drive handy. This is ideally done via a Windows PC, however there is an option to do via a Mac. The MacOS option will be listed below the Windows steps.

Step 1:

On a Windows PC: download the following:

https://ota.esper.io/public/eea/falcon/eleven/eea-1.5-eleven-x86_64-20220318-RELEASE-OFFICIAL-443.iso

Please note if new versions are published, this link isn't updated. But a search via the Esper dashboard may yield a new link. Otherwise please message [e-mail] for a new link. [This link is valid as of Nov. 2022]

Step 2:

Reformat your USB drive by unpacking the zip and running the .exe file. 

Step 3:

Follow the steps in this related article to load it in:

https://getbite.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/7009713250836

Step 1 (Alternative MacOS version)

Using a tool like this - you can try to mount the ISO onto a mac formatted USB Drive. However the drive itself may need to be formatted for Windows rather than the MacOS format.

https://www.uubyte.com/burn-iso-to-usb-on-mac.html