- Rufus linux iso usb 64 Bit#
- Rufus linux iso usb download#
Rufus linux iso usb 64 Bit#
Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter. (1)Ī non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs.
Rufus linux iso usb download#
For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO.
you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOSĭespite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!. 
you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed. you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.). It can be especially useful for cases where: Oh, and Rufus does also provide some additional features that might make it attractive to some, like the ability to download retail Windows installation ISOs straight from Microsoft, or the ability to download a UEFI Shell, or the ability to create a DOS drive, or the ability to save a drive as a VHD (which is really a dd image in disguise anyway), or the ability to write a compressed dd image, or the ability to compute the MD5/SHA-# of the selected image, or the ability to run a bad blocks check, and other things, that may not be directly relevant to Linux users, but that, as a whole, probably contribute to seeing it being recommended.Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. In short, and unlike most of the other boot media creation utilities I know (but then again, as the main developer of Rufus I may be a bit biased in that view) Rufus does not concentrate on a few specific cases, such as ISOhybrid images that are designed to work well when copied in dd mode, but instead tries to do a decent job at also supporting less straightforward cases, as well as ensuring that Windows users, who may be wanting to try Linux, don't end up in the unfortunate situation of thinking that, because Windows will not mount the underlying ISOHybrid file system, the media they just created is not going to work. Unfortunately, that is not the case for all distributions, especially the ones that look for the Linux boot media by label, but this is something that Rufus can also help with, without having to write the media in dd image mode. I also have to point out that, ideally, on a UEFI system, one should really not have to deal with sector by sector copy, as the whole point of UEFI was to stop the madness of needing to work with bootloaders operating at the sector level and instead have UEFI bootloaders always operate at the file system level, which means that one should be able to simply extract the ISO content to a FAT32 drive, and get that to boot (which, actually, is a method that Debian maintainers have done a fairly good job of supporting). 
So, despite what one may be tempted think, there exist drawbacks to only seeing an ISO as a dd image in disguise, and that is where Rufus can help, especially with first time Linux users coming from Windows. This is the reason why, for instance, you can't simply pick a Windows ISO and expect dd to work for creating a USB boot media, because Windows ISOs are not mastered as ISOHybrid. This is answered rather extensively in the relevant Rufus FAQ entry and, AFAIK, this is not something that is being considered by folks who don't interact regularly with Windows users.Īlso, one thing that needs to be pointed out is that for dd to work, the ISO must have been mastered as a ISOHybrid, which is technically a hack (albeit a brilliant one) to make something (an unpartitioned optical media file system) appear like something it was never designed to be (a partitioned disk file system). The problem with dd and utilities that only perform dd-like write of ISOHybrid images is that it can result in drive content that are very confusing for Windows users, and that actually leads them not to try to boot their media because they (wrongly) assume that it was improperly created.
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