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Burn ISO to USB Stick (draft)

Date: 2017-06-23 16:24:22 +0000

Sources: How to format a usb stick so that it is usable on Manjaro, Windows and macOS (Manjaro Forum), Burn an ISO File (Manjaro Wiki)

Format USB Stick

Use gParted to delete and create a new partition on the USB drive.

  1. Delete the drive’s partitions
  2. Create a new partition table of the type msdos. (Device > Create Partition Table)
  3. Create a partition of the ext4 filesystem type for now. This is necessary since gParted does not always write exFAT filesystems.

  4. Make an exFAT file system using the command line. The USB device may be queried using lsblk.

    $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 500.7M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 58.6G 0 part / ├─sda3 8:3 0 29.3G 0 part ├─sda4 8:4 0 29.3G 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 29.3G 0 part /mnt/xtra4 ├─sda6 8:6 0 29.3G 0 part /mnt/xtra3 ├─sda7 8:7 0 58.6G 0 part /mnt/xtra2 ├─sda8 8:8 0 58.6G 0 part /mnt/xtra1 ├─sda9 8:9 0 15.6G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda10 8:10 0 488.3G 0 part /mnt/stuff └─sda11 8:11 0 134.1G 0 part /mnt/work sdb 8:16 1 1.9G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 1 1.9G 0 part /run/media/spherehead/bc1f65c0-9e53-4ee3-88c5-01d73a070672 sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

    $ sudo mkfs.exfat /dev/sdb1

  5. Eject the USB drive using your file manager (Thunar), pull it out and reinsert it. If that doesn’t allow you to write files to the usb stick yet, then reboot your computer, because the Linux kernel might need a reboot to recognize the changes to the partition table and filesystem on the flash drive.

Check ISO File

It is strongly recommended that the ISO file is not corrupted.

$ sha1sum manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso
5d093986fa0abd54af48ce7912a9a5edfd37dc45  manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso

Compare the result with the corresponding sha1 file of the ISO file. Or much better to let sha1sum do the checking.

$ sha1sum -c manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso.sha1
manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso: OK

Burn ISO File

To burn an ISO file onto an USB stick, use the following command in a terminal:

$ sudo dd bs=4M if=<iso file> of=/dev/sd<drive letter> status=progress

Where iso file is the .iso file and may include the path. The drive letter is the letter of your removable device. Please note that it is the device (e.g. /dev/sdb), and not the partition number (e.g. /dev/sdb1).

$ sudo dd bs=4M if=manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress
1237319680 bytes (1.2 GB, 1.2 GiB) copied, 64.1835 s, 19.3 MB/s
389+1 records in
389+1 records out
1632399360 bytes (1.6 GB, 1.5 GiB) copied, 64.5223 s, 25.3 MB/s

Check ISO file

To check an ISO file, use the following command:

$ sudo fdisk -l manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso
Disk manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso: 1.4 GiB, 1543415808 bytes, 3014484 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device                                 Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso1 *         64 3006291 3006228  1.4G cd unknown
manjaro-xfce-17.0.1-stable-x86_64.iso2      3006292 3014483    8192    4M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

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