Some of the steps to create a bootable USB stick could be done in the GUI as well, but as some of them can’t and you have to go to the shell anyway, I decided to do all of the steps in the shell. We first need to convert the image from an ISO to a UDRW (Read/Write Universal Disk Image Format) which we can copy to the USB stick.
This image format is sadly not directly usable to copy onto the USB stick. It includes all the files necessary to boot your PC/server. The ISO file you have downloaded contains an image of the entire media. In this post I’ll assume you have already downloaded the bootable ISO image for the OS of your choice, but how to get the ISO image onto the USB stick? In fact, it can even work out cheaper than burning a CD or DVD that you just throw away once the version is outdated.įor most Linux distributions the ISO for burning a CD/DVD is available freely on the internet. To install the OS of your choice, USB sticks provide you the easiest possibility. More and more PCs (and servers) are delivered by default without a CD/DVD drive.
Booting from a USB stick is nowadays more and more important.