#Linux usb image tool install
#Linux usb image tool iso

#Linux usb image tool install

The ' Linux Mint Daily Builds' PPA also contains the newest release of mintstick.Īnother way is to directly download the deb package from the Linux Mint packages server and install the package using dpkg -i.Īnd another alternative is to clone the public code repository on GitHub and build your own deb package.Download USB Image Tool 1.85 (ZIP, 827 KB)

One way is to add a PPA (Personal Package Archive) to the APT repository list. The mintstick package can easily be installed on all other Debian-based Linux installations, including all Ubuntu derivatives. It will automatically extend to use the rest of the disk. There is also a dedicated EFI partition (for UEFI boot support) and a 4MB small third partition which is a reiserfs formatted partition and serves as writable partition when using the booted stick. The first partition received the bootable flag. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes What happened under the hood?īy looking at the new partition table of our USB stick (/dev/sdd), we can see that three partitions were created: ~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sddĭisk /dev/sdd: 28.7 GiB, 30752636928 bytes, 60063744 sectors

#Linux usb image tool iso

I have yet to find an ISO where this did not work. Knoppix ISO successfully written to USB stick Note: If it doesn't show up, make sure you have the 'mintstick' package installed. Another way is to use a right-click on an ISO file and select 'Make bootable USB stick' from the context menu. If you're on a Linux Mint machine, simply enter 'USB Image' in the menu and the 'USB Image Writer' should show up in the list. However with the program mintstick, which is part of every recent Linux Mint release, I have (so far) only made great experiences! Create a bootable USB stick with mintstick There are a bunch of alternatives, such as unetbootin, but here too I experienced boot issues with the stick – depending on the source image. The chances are high that this USB stick will not boot (mostly due to a problem of internal naming of its own drive). The tech-savvy people comfortable using the command line would probably chose the dd (disk dump) command to copy the ISO to a USB stick: $ sudo dd if=~/Downloads/KNOPPIX_V9.1DVD-EN.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4096īut Knoppix is an excellent example that this is not enough. Creating a bootable USB stick on Linux can sometimes be a pain, depending on the ISO image and how it is built.