Creating a bootable USB flash drive from a Linux ISO using UNetBootin
Modern users of personal computers and laptops are increasingly using external storage devices such as CDs and DVDs. It’s probably not worth talking about their irrelevance, since they have long been replaced by flash drives, which, despite their small size, can store several tens of gigabytes of information.
So, in order to record any operating system on your PC, it is enough to have a small flash drive with a virtual image of this very OS on it. To record these images, special utilities are used, one of which is the UNetBootin program.
A little about UNetBootin
UNetBootin is a cross-platform program that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems. Using this application, the user can record a virtual image of the Linux OS on any external drive in order to later use it for installation and further use of this OS.
The main requirement for correct recording of an ISO image using this utility is that the free space of the drive must exceed the size of the image being ported.
Creating an image
To get started, you will need an external drive, downloaded UNetBootin program https://unetbootin.github.io/ and an operating system distribution downloaded from the official website of the developers or from some other site you have verified, if you want a special build.
In order to make a virtual image of the Linux operating system, you need to do the following:
- Open the UNetBootin program.
- Place a check mark next to the item Form.
- Click on "...” next to the line next to it and select the downloaded Linux distribution.
- At the very bottom of the window the program in the item Type put the value USB drive, and at point Диск – path to the flash drive on which the image will be written.
- Press Ok.
After these steps, the UNetBootin utility will automatically begin recording the image. You can monitor the entire process through the program window.
When the installation of the image is complete, click on the Reboot now button and you will receive a flash drive with the Linux ISO image recorded on it.
