.iso

Use Rufus to create a bootable device

Write .iso

  1. Download the .iso file you wish to install on the bootable USB drive. Save it onto your computer.
  2. Download https://rufus.ie/
  3. Plug the USB drive into your computer.
  4. Run the Rufus program (no need to install)
  5. From the Device drop-down menu, select your USB drive,
  6. Under "Boot selection", select your .iso file.
  7. "Image option" ?
  8. Set "Partition scheme" to GPT.
  9. "Target system"? UEFI?
  10. "File System" ? FAT32?
  11. Start.

Troubleshooting

How to burn .iso to USB drive

From the command line

Find the device name of your usb drive:

$ df
/dev/sdg1             7.4G  4.0K  7.4G   1% /media/usb-drive
// OR:
# fdisk -l
...
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdg1               1        6297     7712740    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
...

The unmount the device and use dd to copy (burn) the iso:

# umount /dev/sdg1
// In the command below, use /dev/sdg NOT /dev/sdg1!
# dd bs=4M if=cld-20161116-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdg
558+1 records in
558+1 records out

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