These instructions will walk you through creating a bootable Nitrux USB stick on Windows or Linux. You can use a USB stick to boot, test, or install Nitrux on any computer that supports USB booting.
We do not recommend using the following programs to flash the Nitrux ISO to a USB drive. We will close issues caused by the software listed below, including failed flash or write operations and an unbootable Live session.
- BalenaEtcher. BalenaEtcher runs an unknown test at the end of the flashing process that consistently fails, even though it writes the image to the USB device without errors. Additionally, users have reported severe privacy concerns because the application sends user data to multiple third parties.
- Unetbootin. Unetbootin does not write the image; it copies it to the USB. However, unlike Ventoy, the ISO file does not boot with Unetbootin.
- Linux Mint mintstick. Mintstick fails to write the ISO image to the target device correctly.
- ROSA Image Writer. The software seems to have been abandoned.
We strongly recommend using the following programs to flash our ISO file to a USB instead. The list of software below for flashing the ISO is not in any particular order of preference.
- Rufus (Windows)
- Ventoy (Windows/Linux)
- dd (*nix)