Creating a Bootable USB Flashdrive

Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

Download the image

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wget <url-iso>

Flash the ISO into USB

First of all is to identified the partition of the USB connected. We use lsblk command and then, we unmount the partition. After that, we format in vFAT and, finnally, flash the ISO into USB.

One way is to burn an image is with the dd command as shown below:

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# See the partitions
lsblk

# Umount the USB partition
sudo umount /dev/sdc1 

# Flash the ISO into USB
sudo dd bs=4M if=image.iso of=/dev/sda conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress