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Insight: How to Create Bootable CentOS 7 USB Stick on Linux

Create Bootable CentOS/Redhat USB Drive on Windows with ISO2USB With increasing use of USB drive more and more users looking for bootable OS USB drives. Specially users with Netbook or having old computer lacking optical drive. Make a Ubuntu bootable USB. First, you need to install AIO Boot for USB if you have not already, AIO Boot support runs on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and even Windows XP.

We are going to explain how to create bootable CentOS 7 USB stick or pendrive. You should have at-least an 8GB or larger USB stick drive.

Download the ISO image from the official download link.

> CentOS 7 ISO <<

How To Create Bootable CentOS 7 USB Stick on Linux

Plugged in your USB stick on your Linux based system. You can find out the name of the USB drive by running the following command:

Now, you need to flash the USB stick and you have to make sure that it is unmounted.

You will see the progress and it will takes time. After a few minutes, you will have a bootable CentOS USB stick.

Now a day’s most of us don’t use CD or DVD drivers to burn & install OS, then what is the other option?

USB or Memory Card Which is very handy and good option to create a bootable ISO image.

Lot of applications is available in Linux to Create a bootable USB drive from an ISO image but we can make it easily using dd command without headache.

dd stands for Data Duplicator which is used to convert and copy a file block by block from one device to another device.

We had already written few articles about this kind of topics in our website. To access this, navigate to the appropriate link. Those are Etcher, BootISO and USB Installer.

How To Install isohybrid Tool In Linux

isohybrid package is part of the syslinux package. So, use your distribution official manager to install syslinux package on Linux.

For Fedora system, use DNF Command to install isohybrid.

For Debian/Ubuntu systems, use APT-GET Command or APT Command to install isohybrid.

For Arch Linux based systems, use Pacman Command to install isohybrid.

For RHEL/CentOS systems, use YUM Command to install isohybrid.

For openSUSE Leap system, use Zypper Command to install isohybrid.

How To Install dd Command On Linux?

You don’t need to install dd command in Linux system because it has installed by default as part of core utility.

Run the following command to convert an ISO image into USB drive compatible format.

First, we need to identify the USB device name by running the fdisk -l command on terminal before perform dd command. In my case our USB device name is /dev/sdb1

Run The Following Command To Create A Bootable USB Disk In Linux Using dd Command

Use dd command to write the ISO image into the disk. No need to format the USB Device, while using dd command it will automatically overwrite with new content.

The Details Are Follow:

Create Centos Bootable Usb From Windows 10 Rufus

dd: It’s a command.
if: Input file (Mention the location of ISO image file).
of: Output file (where to write the ISO file, Make sure you have to give you the correct USB device location).
bs: Read and Write up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512); overrides ibs and obs.
sync: Pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs.

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