It is a wonderful tool, however, after flashing a USB drive using it, it creates multiple partitions on USB, which is a little bit annoying, especially for users who are not much familiar with it. A file explorer will open, select the ISO image, and USB stick and click on the OK button.Īnother Rufus alternative tool to run on Linux for creating bootable drives is Etcher. To flash any downloaded ISO image using UNetbootin select the radio button of “DiskImage” and then “…”. If you want to install Unetbootin on popular Ubuntu, Debian, MX Linux, Linux Mint, and another same-stream OS, here are the commands to follow: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppaĪfter its installation, simply run it from Applications. In addition to Open-source distros, it further supports various rescue and administration systems such as Parted Magic, System Recovery CD, Dr.Web Antivirus, Kaspersky Rescue Disk, Backtracks, or Ophcrack. Moreover, if one is not there still we can use the ISO image directly in the tool. Such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, NetBSD, Fedora, Gentoo, Puppy Linux, OpenSUSE, LinuxMint, Zenwalk, CentOS, Elive, DreamLinux, CloneZilla, FreeBSD, Arch Linux, and more.īluntly, it has a complete list of mainstream and popular Linux.

One can use UNetbootin to create bootable USB drives for various Linux distributions and BSD operating systems, the best thing we can directly download their respective latest ISO image within the software. UNetbootin Netbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) can be used with FAT32 formatted USB stick instead of a DVD for installing operating systems on bare metal PC.

When Rufus is only available on Windows, UNetbootin is available as open-source software for Windows, Linux, and macOS. However, if it is not available then open the command terminal and run the following command: sudo apt install usb-creator-gtk UNetbootin If you are an Ubuntu or similar system user then you already have software called “ Start Up Disk Creator” Go to Applications and search for it. Fedora media writer Ubuntu Start-up Disk Creator

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