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Create Bootable USB Drives

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BalenaEtcher

2022-05-16

Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

From <https://www.balena.io/etcher/>

Rufus

Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

From <https://rufus.ie/en_US.html>

ImageUSB Passmark

2021-02-16 Overview ImageUSB is a free utility which lets you write an image concurrently to multiple USB Flash Drives. Capable of creating exact bit-level copies of USB Flash Drive (UFDs), ImageUSB is an extremely effective tool for the mass duplication of UFDs. ImageUSB also supports writing of an ISO file byte by byte directly to an USB drive (*). ImageUSB can also be used to install OSFClone to a USB Drive for use with PassMark OSForensics™.

From <https://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html>

3 best gui enabled usb image writer tools on linux

From: http://news.tecmint.com/3-best-gui-enabled-usb-image-writer-tools-on-linux/

Etcher – USB and SD Card Writer
Unetbootin – Create Bootable Live USB Image: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/
Gnome Multi-Writer

Win32 Disk Imager

2021-02-16

This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely Arm development projects (Android, Ubuntu on Arm, etc). Anyone is free to branch and modify this program. Patches are always welcome.

From <https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/>

Opensuse Style

From: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick

Using SUSE Studio Image Writer
Install ImageWriter for openSUSE

Install SUSE Imagewriter with 1-Click Install

For openSUSE Leap 42.1: 1-click installation of Imagewriter 
software/linux/bootableusb.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/16 22:44 by superwizard