10-23-2017, 08:37 PM
This has become a really interesting thread, with some useful insights and information. We seem to have a shortlist of three: Etcher, Rufus, and Linux Lite's inbuilt image-writing option as described by torreydale. (Incidentally I think Linux Mint has a similar inbuilt USB image-creator option).All seem to be rated highly.... I'll just have to try them!
Just one further and possibly dumb question. Am I correct in believing that with any of these, the deal is one USB stick, one ISO image? In other words, when writing an ISO image on to a USB stick to create a bootable USB with any of these programs, the program - after formatting - only puts one ISO image (equivalent to one Live CD/DVD) on to the USB stick, and any remaining space on the stick is invisible/inaccessible/unusable?
If that is so, it seems to be an argument for using a USB stick which is fairly small.... and if you want to have more than one distro available for installation, you have one USB stick for each?
Otherwise I guess if you want several distros (ISOs) on a single - larger - USB stick, you have to look at YUMI?
Just one further and possibly dumb question. Am I correct in believing that with any of these, the deal is one USB stick, one ISO image? In other words, when writing an ISO image on to a USB stick to create a bootable USB with any of these programs, the program - after formatting - only puts one ISO image (equivalent to one Live CD/DVD) on to the USB stick, and any remaining space on the stick is invisible/inaccessible/unusable?
If that is so, it seems to be an argument for using a USB stick which is fairly small.... and if you want to have more than one distro available for installation, you have one USB stick for each?
Otherwise I guess if you want several distros (ISOs) on a single - larger - USB stick, you have to look at YUMI?