How To Prepare Bootable USB For Linux: Beginner's Tutorial

Want to try out a Linux distribution? How do you go through the installation process, and what exactly should you do with an ISO image? In this video, Jay walks through the process of setting up installation media for Linux using usbimager, a cross-platform tool.

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[joshhardin]

respectfully, this is a good tutorial for the old way of creating boot media, but these days I would HIGHLY recommend using ventoy. you only have to do the "imaging a usb drive" once, and then you can just drag and drop iso files to your heart's content and boot off of them with the ventoy boot menu.

[chromerims]

Bootable usbs are a foundational resource for Linux users of every level of experience.
Good you made a surpassing, up-to-date video about it 👍
Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

[crawforc]

Just went through this recently. Here are some commands:

- Making a bootable usb drive
- plug in the thumb drive
- find the /dev/sd* identifier
- sudo fdisk -l
- make sure it's unmounted
- sudo unmount /dev/sd*
- format the drive
- sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sd*
- copy the iso to the thumb drive
- sudo dd if=linux.iso of=/dev/sd* status="progress"

[linuxforpunks]

This needed to mention about if you create the usb on a legacy-bios pc it will require legacy-bios, and if on uefi it will require uefi.

[yulz_khepter]

This is a good tutorial for beginners or new user from windows. A good follow-up video should be proper partitioning. As for windows we dont usually tackle the partitioning part. So its important for us new comers from windows to have proper knowledge on proper partitioning on linux. I hope you make this kind of content. Thank you.

[pedu]

Nowadays I have a stick with Ventoy prepared for all systems, onto which I then just copy the corresponding ISO.
In the rare case that it is not possible with hardware, this alternative remains. Yes, there was a time before, now most sticks are used differently.
But thank you for your many great videos here, definitely one of the best channels on YT

[jamj]

Booting in UEFI mode, with a GPT in yor USB, you don't need an ISO.

All you need is to copy to your USB all folders and files of the distro you want to install. Make sure you have an EFI folder among them!!

[Romactu]

Do you know you can also run Linux installer through SD card.

It's possible on my opinion.

[michaelwright]

As usual, this is very clear. But I wonder if it's quite beginnery enough? If it is for someone who's thinking about trying out Linux, they're probably going to be using Windows, so a demo making a bootable drive on that OS might be better for them. I wonder, too, if "ISO" needs explanation; and perhaps a few words about what making a bootable USB means.This would, of course, increase the size of the video a bit, and maybe these points are covered in other videos I've not seen.

I see one commenter is saying demoing ventoy would be better. I'm inclined to agree with your approach. I use ventoy myself and it's great, but it would be a bit more complex to explain; and I have occasionally found, with older hardware, that a ventoy USB won't work, and I have to revert to the old skool method.

Finally, a question. I use Mint, and the file mangler on that will make a bootable USB just from the context menu on the ISO (I *think* it calls dd, but I'm no expert). Is there an advantage, on Linux, of using a standalone program, rather than the built in facility?

[aromaticsnail]

Not so sure if it's the best option to use your own URL shortener for collect user data instead of simply providing the direct link to the software, specially considering the ethos of linux

[harshlands]

Only thing I would add to this as a Windows user is that in MOST cases if installing on a laptop or Mini-PC and not a self-built desktop, those will have Secure Boot enabled by default in the BIOS/UEFI. If you don't also disable that first, many such devices will spit out an Invalid Boot Media or Inaccessible Disk error or some other cryptic nonsense. Or at least it did for me when putting LMDE on an HP intel laptop that came with Win11 originally.

[Dmitry_Esipenko]

use "dd" command for create usb-boot media :)

[securelinuxchannel]

Do you preffer install preload for open application faster on ubuntu ? is there any negative impact on hard drive or ssd

[saidbakr]

What is about Ventoy?! I think it is easier and more practical. It allows to add as many as iso images you want on one USB stick!

[castigousmetamageus]

Hi! Is there a way to let's say put a "permanent" usb-key in the ssd?

I'm asking because I have a win partition occupying plenty of space, and I would like to have something like ventoy but on the ssd, so it occupies a much smaller space and I can boot it without needing a usb-key

Can Ventoy (or something similar) co-exist and be boot from, in a disk hosting other linux distros?

I'd appreciate any informed opinion.

Thanks

[hasnibrahiti]

I use Fedora Media Writer and Popsicle from System76. Also WTF happened to balena Etcher! It displays an error message every time I select the ISO file I want to write!

[alsadekalkhayer]

Is there a way to check how my hardware will perform under Linux?! And which distro has the most hardware driver support?! 😊

[andriangameplays]

basic ra man gud ni dol. pero thanks. tudlo e mi mag hax dol

[bhai_]

How to crack tha password of phone ?
Pattan, pin code,

[XPFTP]

i find a lot of videos on sking desktops so no i dont... there aint to many. seems the standards are all over the place. folks i think and if wrong correct me. we need a skin standard and easier way to change desktop skins. i have yet to find one. i do run LMDE 6 Mate. not ubuntoooo.. i dont know. i think its to much to ask for. a good video from someone. iam lost. PS EDIT: i mean by skin. change the look of desktop from premades NOT build a new desktop skin.