Edited on 2024-05-25

1. detecting the pendrive:

sudo fdisk -l

1. unmounting pendrive

sudo umount /dev/sdf1

1. formatting the pendrive

sudo mkfs.vfat -n ‘Nome Pendrive’ -I /dev/sdf1

where:

• ‘-n’ = Volume Name
• ‘mkfs’ = command responsible for format the file system
• ‘vfat’ = formats in the file system FAT. Others avaible: mkfs.bfs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext4, mkfs.minix, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.vfat, mkfs.xfs, mkfs.xiafs.
• ‘-I’ = pen drive’s partition

1. copy the ISO to the device. Adapt the ISA/architecture as needed.

   dd bs=4M if=path/to/linux-version-x86_64.iso of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-My_flash_drive conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress