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Bootloader equivalent to Rufus (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been trying to find a linux programming similar to Rufus to flash images of OSes on a thumb drive.

Nothing from the listicles on the internet or the programs in flatpak have worked for me as well as Rufus on Windows.

What have you used that's worked well? Or, could I run Rufus on my linux machine with WINE?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

One of these should do what you're looking for. Each has a slightly different approach.

https://etcher.balena.io/

https://unetbootin.github.io/

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Popsicle from Pop!_OS is also very good - really simple. I’m not sure if it can create a bootable Windows USB though.

https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle

Fedora Media Writer is also another good option.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/preparing-boot-media/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I'll check these out

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (8 children)

+1 for ventoy. With that you can just flash ventoy on it once, then copy iso's over to the usb drive without reformatting or reflashing anything.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

From this list, only Unetbootin can create Windows installation disk. For this, there is also WoeUSB but it's CLI only.

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