How to create a bootable USB Drive.
Creating a Bootable USB Drive
On Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE
GNOME Disks is pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and newer. Use the Restore Disk Image… option, which natively supports XZ compressed images.
If Disks is not present on your system, you can install it from the terminal:
sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility
On GNU/Linux
The image can be directly written to a microSDHC using a utility like
dd, but we prefer ddrescue (from the gddrescue package).
For example, for Debian-based systems:
sudo apt-get install gddrescue xz-utils unxz ubuntu-mate-15.10.3-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi-2.img.xz sudo ddrescue -D --force ubuntu-mate-15.10.3-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi-2.img /dev/sdx
Replace /dev/sdX with your actual device. Use the lsblk command to check.
On Windows
If you want to make a microSDHC using Windows we recommend:
- 7-Zip to extract the image.
- Win32 Disk Imager to write the image.
