Rufus is a very popular free and open source portable application for Windows operating systems that can be used to easily create bootable USB flash drives. Thanks to its active development, new editions are released regularly, which contain many new features. In this tutorial, we will try Rufus version 4.3 and use it to create a Debian 12 installation flash drive.

GRUB is a boot program that starts the selected operating system when you start your computer. For Ubuntu Linux systems, the GRUB menu will only appear by default if you have more than one operating system installed on your computer, giving the user the option to select the system they want to boot. However, sometimes you may need to display the GRUB menu for an instance of Ubuntu. In this short description, we'll look at how to bring up the GRUB menu for a single Ubuntu system.

If you frequently use virtual machines with VirtualBox, it is a more convenient and time-saving solution if you do not create and configure a new virtual machine for each installation, but use the existing ones. In some cases, this can cause problems, such as when you try to start your installer in EFI mode, but it does not want to start. In this short little troubleshooter, we will look at how to start ISO installers on EFI mode virtual machines.

A system recovery flash drive is a bootable device that can be used to save damaged file systems or perform maintenance on them when the operating system is unable to start due to the damage, or even to recover a broken GRUB if it is not working properly. In this description, we will make and test a recovery flash drive, which will not hurt if you are always lurking in your pocket in case there is any problem with your computer later.

Balena Etcher is an open source freeware program that lets you conveniently create bootable flash drives for computers and bootable SD cards, for example, for Raspberry. In this tutorial, we will try this powerful utility that offers the ability to create bootable flash drives on both Linux and Windows platforms.

In this tutorial, we create a bootable flash drive on Debian using two methods: Using unetbootin and then using the dd command.

Here's how to make a bootable flash drive with the new 3.3 version of Rufus.

This tutorial describes how to use the Rufus program to write the operating system setup image files to USB flash drives.