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Quick and dirty how to create a bootable linux usb stick with your favo tools
https://github.com/szolll/create_bootable_usb_stick_linux
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Quick and dirty how to create a bootable linux usb stick with your favo tools
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/szolll/create_bootable_usb_stick_linux
- Owner: szolll
- Created: 2023-08-02T08:04:04.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-09-23T08:54:26.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-05T19:06:43.683Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 39.1 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Create a Bootable Live USB Stick Running Debian/Ubuntu or Any Other Linux Flavor
You can run the bash script "create_bootable_usb.sh" or follow the steps provided below. This is a quick and dirty guide to creating a bootable Linux USB stick with your favorite tools.
### Steps
1.A
On your host system, first update your package list and install `live-build`:
```
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install live-build -y
```
1.B **Switch to Root User**
```
sudo su -
```
2. **Download the OS Using debootstrap**
Download the base system. You can check debootstrap for other OS versions you can install:
```
debootstrap --variant=minbase focal /tmp/focal_tree
```
3. **Customize Your OS Using chroot**
Make changes to your new OS. Note that changes made after this point are stored only in the new live version.
```
chroot /tmp/focal_tree
```
3.A **Prepare apt**
Update the package list and install necessary tools:
```
apt update -y && apt upgrade -y && apt install apt-transport-https
```
3.B **Add Universe Repository**
Add the universe repository and update the package list:
```
add-apt-repository universe
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main universe restricted multiverse"
apt-get update
```
3.C **Install Common Software**
Install common tools and applications:
```
apt install software-properties-common net-tools terminator filezilla vim xfce4 xfce4-terminal xfce4-goodies xubuntu-desktop openssh-server tldr tigervnc-viewer sudo wireless-tools laptop-detect locales curl clamav-daemon nano less gparted gedit
```
3.C.1 **For Server Recovery**
```
apt install ipmitool
```
3.C.2 **Improve Battery Life for Laptops**
```
apt install tlp tlp-rdw
tlp start
systemctl enable tlp.service
```
3.D **Optionally Install apt-fast**
```
add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable
apt-get update
apt-get install apt-fast
```
If asked, select lightdm.
4. **Add VSCodium for Development**
Download and add the VSCodium key:
```
wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor | dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg
```
4.A **Add the VSCodium Repository**
```
echo 'deb [ signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg ] https://download.vscodium.com/debs vscodium main' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
```
5. **Add Chrome Browser**
5.A **Add Key**
```
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
```
5.B **Add Repository**
```
echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
```
5.C **Update apt**
```
apt-get update
```
5.D **Install Google Chrome browser**
```
apt-get install google-chrome-stable
```
6. **Purge Unwanted Software**
```
apt-get purge -y transmission-gtk transmission-common gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-sudoku aisleriot hitori
```
7. **Generate Locales**
Select `en_US.ISO-8859-1` and `en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8`, and then `C.UTF-8` as the default:
```
dpkg-reconfigure locales
```
8. **Add a User with a Home Directory**
```
useradd -m
```
9. **Clean up apt**
```
apt-get autoremove -y && apt-get clean
```
10. **Set Hostname**
```
echo "ubuntu-fs-live" > /etc/hostname
```
11. **Configure Machine-ID and Divert**
```
dbus-uuidgen > /etc/machine-id
ln -fs /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
```
12. **Remove Machine-ID**
```
truncate -s 0 /etc/machine-id
```
13. **Clean up bash_history**
```
rm -rf /tmp/* ~/.bash_history
export HISTSIZE=0
```
14. **Exit from chroot**
```
exit
```
15. **Generate the Bootable Image**
```
debootstick --config-root-password-ask /tmp/focal_tree /tmp/img.dd
```
15.A **Enter Root Password for Your New Live Stick**
Follow the prompts to enter and confirm the root password.
16. **Insert a USB Stick and Find the Device Name**
```
lsblk
```
17. **Write the Image to the USB Stick**
Replace `/dev/sdb` with your USB device name:
```
sudo dd bs=10M if=/tmp/img.dd of=/dev/sdb
```
You should see an output similar to:
```
554+1 records in
554+1 records out
5812256768 bytes (5.8 GB, 5.4 GiB) copied, 175.691 s, 33.1 MB/s
```
18. **Test the Image**
Create a test copy and simulate the USB stick on a virtual machine:
```
cp /tmp/img.dd /tmp/img.dd-test # Work on a copy, the test is destructive
truncate -s 2G /tmp/img.dd-test # Simulate a 2G-large USB stick
kvm -m 2048 -hda /tmp/img.dd-test # Test in BIOS mode
```
19. **Copy the Boot Image to a USB Stick or Disk**
```
dd bs=10M if=/tmp/img.dd of=/dev/your-device
```
The USB device is now ready to be booted on any BIOS or UEFI hardware.
---
### Links
- [Debootstrap Documentation](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man8/debootstrap.8.html)
- [Live-Build Documentation](https://howtoinstall.co/package/live-build)
- [Debootstick Documentation](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man8/debootstick.8.html)