best tool to created usb install-isos sticks

[weststrand]

Hi girls and guys,

Using mostly Suse until now ,
I created my usb install-isos with the Suse Studio Imagewriter.
This worked with all distros. Even with 1708 KDE live.
But it failed with the DVD and Everything 1708 isos.

- which tool do You use?
- do I need a bigger usb then 8 GB?

Thanxs

[TrevorH]

dd

[weststrand]

thank You Trevor,

is there no known working programm with a GUI for the CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1708.iso / 2017-10-05 15:59 with 4.1G ?

What is the diffference between CentOS-7 image and all the other ISO`s?

Suse Imagewriter works perfectly with all of them ...

[TrevorH]

We recommend dd simply because it's guaranteed not to try and be "clever" and rewrite the image as it processes it. It's already bootable on both UEFI and legacy BIOS systems and many of the programs to copy things to USB try to rewrite the images as they copy them and that breaks one or other of the two types.

The i386 image is 32 bit only. Are you sure you need that? The x86_64 version is better supported and receives updates more quickly simply because it's the primary architecture. Any processor since about 2005 is 64 bit capable and most code executes more quickly on a 64 bit processor.

[northpoint]

[quote="weststrand"]thank You Trevor,

Theres Multibootusb. I fired up a VM of centos and downloaded the rpm for redhat/fedora based but it ran into dependency issues. I see there is one for open suse though.

I do use it on my Mint box it will take a 8 gig stick and make a bootable stick for multiple O/S's. I have a 8 gig stick that has Clonezilla and Centos7 on it bootable.

Otherwise I agree with everyone else that DD is preferred.

http://multibootusb.org/

[jvroig]

If dd through the commandline isn't your cup of tea, you can also just use the Gnome Disks utility for a simple GUI.

That's the default "Disks" manager installed. It has a "Restore Image" option. In any CentOS 7 install:
- Super key (Windows) key, then type "Disks"
- Click or press enter with the "Disks" utility icon that comes up
- On the left side of the Disks window is a list of your disks, including any plugged in USB sticks.
- Click the one you want to turn into an installer.
- Then upper right, burger menu, click then choose Restore Image option.
- That'll present you with an option to indicate/search for the .iso image you want to use.
- Click "Start Restoring". This will remove all contents of your USB stick, of course.

That's pretty much it. Going dd is probably the best option still, but this is convenient and will work without problems. It most likely just uses dd anyway behind the scenes, as it's a pretty lightweight utility, and isn't specific to creating "Live USB media" - it's really a generic "restore image" function, which can be for anything.

[weststrand]

Hi Trevor,

indeed some elder of my family and their friends have still 32-bit machines. They are updated with RAM and SSD and work fine with opensuse 13.2 KDE. Because nobody of them likes the new KDE5 "flatdesign" I´m looking for a long running replace and switching over to CentOS-7 may be a better choice than any Debian.

The new KDE5 "flatdesign" is horrible for elder: all is grey in grey...