Those days were left in the past when even experienced users knew two types of operating systems: Windows and OS X. However, not everyone knew about the latter, since the camp of “Makovods” in our country began to grow rapidly only in recent years. Fortunately, now people can not be scared by the scary words "Ubuntu" and "Fedora", since Linux has arrived in the regiment of admirers of Linux. But among them there are those who know not so much about these operating systems, and they don’t even have a vague idea of how the Linux bootable USB flash drive is made.
Well, we are ready to help them! First, you will need to get the original image of the system that you are going to record on a flash drive. Unlike pirated copies of Windows, getting it for you is not difficult: just go to the developer's site and legally download the appropriate version.
But! It is best to download the x32 bit version, since a bootable USB flash drive with Linux is most often created with the goal of always having your favorite working system with you. Who knows what computer you will have to use it on: it may well happen that you have to download it on an ancient “mammoth”, which will hardly pull the old bit capacity. But it’s better not to do this, since so old hardware may not support your idea of using USB Flash drives as a boot disk.
So, with the download sorted out. To begin, consider the case when you are going to record an image from under the Linux OS itself. Consider how this process will take place in Ubuntu, since it is it that is currently the most common and popular OS of this family.
It will not be difficult to do this, since everything you need will be at your fingertips. First of all, open Dash by clicking on the button with the Ubuntu symbol in the upper left corner of the monitor. In the search bar, write something like “Creating a boot disk” or immediately drive in the name of the USB-creator program, with which our Linux boot flash drive will be created.
Launch? Then take the program to the place where the image file you downloaded is located. To do this, click on the ellipsis button ("Browse"), which will open the local file manager. After that, it is advisable to immediately reserve some space on the flash drive, which will be used by the system as storage for those files that you create or download while working with the system.
Since the Linux bootable USB flash drive is most often created specifically for work, we advise you not to be greedy and reserve all the available space. To do this, there is a slider at the bottom of the program’s working window, with which you can precisely control the volume of disk space used. After all the preparatory procedures, click on the "Create boot disk" button and wait for the process to complete.
If you create such bootable media from under Windows OS, then everything will be even simpler. Also download the system image file and a program called Unetbootin. It is very light, does not require installation, and according to the principle of operation as two drops of water is similar to the USB-creator described above. With how to create a bootable flash drive Linux, you can easily figure it out yourself.