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?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I’ve found some thumb drives don’t like to boot.

    Ventoy has worked for almost everything. Proxmox doesn’t like it.

    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I maintain older hardware at work. We have a platform based on a Biostar motherboard with no USB3 ports, and it will not boot from any USB3 drive I’ve tried. Any USB2 drives work fine. Picky, picky! 🤷

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      2·
      5 months ago

      To be fair, I seem to have a not-so-super superpower to blind pick the USB devices that have the least support for Linux stuff (the aforementioned drives, a WiFi module, etc.).

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 months ago

        Hahahaha, sorry to hear (but I empathize). I can be a cheap bastard, so I have some shitty thumb drives around. I figure they eventually die anyway, so this stuff isn’t permanent.

        I keep a folder on my server with the tools and noted to rebuild each one. Sometimes I even make an image with the tools, and only leave the ISOs out.