Rufus has been my go-to for maybe decades now? It's one of those software that I keep a copy of in cold storage for the apocalypse.
Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
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#52Lately all my usb thumb drives have been overheating when using any tool so last time I ended up using an external hard drive after burning through a number of thumb drives. Anyone has an idea how to artificially limit write speed besides running it over a USB 1 hub?
This happened to me until I bought a $35 Samsung usb-c drive that’s got a metal enclosure. Stopped overheating.
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#53I enjoyed reading the FAQ tonight, thanks for sharing this.
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#54I find it amusing if not a bit sad that the best utility for making bootable Linux flash drives is currently on Windows instead of Linux. The current state of making bootable USB drives on linux is actually quite crappy. UNetbootin used to be a good option but has stopped working on a lot of distros. Etcher.io worked great for a while, but has also stopped working for most situations. The built-in disk image creator in ubuntu flavors works, but only for certain situations.
But at least good ole Rufus works :) Wish we could get something like Rufus (or even better, YUMMI) working perfectly on Linux
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#55Easy2Boot is another good one. Creates USB boot disks with multiple OS ISOs on and boot into any of them. It’s no longer being updated, but still works, just used it this week. https://www.easy2boot.com/ The only caveat is you need to make sure each ISO is stored on the USB in a contiguous file, since it tricks the host machine into thinking each ISO is separate partition. It includes a .cmd script for doing this on…
Why do you say it's no longer being updated? Looks like he last posted 3/30/21.
He's actually great, when he's online he has a chat option on his website and he'll help you with any questions you have, I somehow screwed up an E2B MBR and he very graciously walked me through fixing it.
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#56Another similar/related project is: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
Ventoy is great, for a long time I used E2B but lately I've been using ventoy because of it's native support of UEFI, my only complaint is that I find it to be a bit slower on accepting keyboard input compared to E2B. Also E2B has great keyboard shortcut support which ventoy entirely lacks (last I checked)
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#57Windows images that are over 4.3GB(I don't remember the exact max size) most image burning tools will fallback to NTFS on the USB formatting and some motherboards/laptops don't like this. (Even on my rather modern Dell laptop) The best solution so far I've found is to manually partition the USB into a 1GB FAT32 partition and the rest NTFS. Then you extract the files where needed [0] I learned this method just last ye…
That seems far more complicated than just using DISM, PowerShell or wimlib (on Linux or Windows) to split the install.wim file into two parts, which I believe older versions of Rufus (or a similar utility) offered to do. https://wimlib.net/man1/wimsplit.html
Yep, wimlib is the portable magic that makes FAT32/4GB a non-issue.
It is still annoying to have to use Windows to run NTLite. ;)
https://evanshortiss.com/create-a-windows-install-usb-via-ma...
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#58I find it amusing if not a bit sad that the best utility for making bootable Linux flash drives is currently on Windows instead of Linux. The current state of making bootable USB drives on linux is actually quite crappy. UNetbootin used to be a good option but has stopped working on a lot of distros. Etcher.io worked great for a while, but has also stopped working for most situations. The built-in disk image creator…
What is wrong with just using dd?
Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
#59I find it amusing if not a bit sad that the best utility for making bootable Linux flash drives is currently on Windows instead of Linux. The current state of making bootable USB drives on linux is actually quite crappy. UNetbootin used to be a good option but has stopped working on a lot of distros. Etcher.io worked great for a while, but has also stopped working for most situations. The built-in disk image creator…
What is wrong with just using dd?
To tag on, what's wrong with plain ol' cat or cp?
Re: Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
#60Another similar/related project is: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
This is built on top of Ventoy https://gbatemp.net/threads/medicat-usb-a-multiboot-linux-us...
I saw a comment in there about how files will get deleted by over zealous av's when you plug it into a live system, I didn't feel like reading through 60 pages of comments to see if someone solved that issue but I was wondering if you have any suggestions for preventing that.