soloojos (Lemmy)How to create a bootable Linux USB drive
Snot FlickermanAny “How To” that doesn’t just use Rufus isn’t worth the page its text is rendered on. Rufus can do Linux boot disks, but is indispensable for Windows boot disk utilities. It’s one of the only ways I know of to make a Windows ToGo installation (equivalent of a Linux Live USB), which I used to install Windows on a friends SD card for their Steam Deck so they can dual-boot.
If you’re looking to make a Linux boot USB from Linux itself, BalenaEtcher is probably a better bet since Rufus is Windows-only.
I’ve noticed there’s tons of how-to’s for making a bootable disk on Windows, hardly any for Linux. Perhaps we ought to remedy that?
Successful_Try543For Linux you don’t need a GUI tool, most how tos just dd the ISO onto the USB medium.
orsettoI don’t remember where, but i read that this method only works because linux distributors “abuse” the ISO format to allow this. If I remember right, it’s not possible to use this ISOs on regular disks
Of course the command you provided is right and it’s what I use, it’s just a fun fact
Yes and no, it’s the other way round. The ISOs often are hybrid images which you can burn onto a CD/DVD or dd onto a USB pen drive. Until approximately 15 years ago, the Linux ISOs where not hybrid images and you always needed some other program to write them onto a USB medium.