Make a bootable flash drive from an ISO image on Ubuntu

Background

There are many times you download an ISO file from internet and want to install it on your machine. For eg. Windows or Ubuntu image. What you really wish is flash it iso image into a bootable drive like USB drive or a CD drive and install it from there on your machine.

 Make a bootable flash drive from an ISO image on Ubuntu

You have following options -

1. Etcher- is a free and open-source image burner with support for Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux.
2. Easy2Boot- Flexible and configurable USB drive multiboot solution which also supports UEFI booting.
3. LiveUSB Install- is a free software for GNU/Linux and Windows. With LiveUSB Install you can effortlessly install various Linux distros.
4. Multisystem- is an awesome tool created by LiveUSB.info that works similar to our Windows based MultiBootISOs USB creator.
5. WinUSB - is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD.
6. Unetbootin - UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.

 Let's see some of the options -

Unetbootin

To install this run following command in your terminal -

• sudo apt-get install unetbootin

Once installed you can  open the app. Now you can either select one of the given linux distros (those will get downloaded automatically) or  provide it an iso file from local machine.

WinUsb

To install winusb run following commands on your linux terminal -

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install winusb

Once installed you can open up the app select iso file and target usb and start creating bootable usb drive for windows.

NOTE : If you are looking for rufus then it is for Windows only. You cannot use it on your Linux machine.