1. Rufus app is used to noot your Mac safely as well. Rufus app is an external application, which is used here to reboot all your device and it helps you to create format the bootable USB flash drives. Rufus Portable creates the flash driver such as USB keys, Pen drives, Memory Sticks.
2. Rufus is a free utility that can be used to create bootable USB pen drives by burning ISO image to an external drive. It is touted as one of the fastest applications around when creating a USB drive for a Windows or Linux installation. The tool can also be used for running low-level utilities, as.

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Rufus for Ubuntu:To use Rufus on Ubuntu you need to download Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ISO image on your device and we will begin with that process. There are other versions of rufus on linux platforms such as mac OS. A tool named “ Mac Linux USB Loader ” by SevenBits worked well for us. This Mac application will allow you to create USB drives with your preferred Linux distro on them from within Mac OS X in just a few clicks. You can then reboot and boot those USB drives to use the Linux distribution from the live system. 10 Best Rufus Alternatives for Windows, Linux, and macOS Rufus is a wildly popular software for creating USB bootable drives on Windows which support various image formats including Windows ISO files and Linux distros. Further, many users prefer Rufus because of its lightweight size and extremely quick flashing. Jesus Vigo shows you how to create bootable USB flash drives that are used to install just about any OS on your computer with the help of Rufus. Rufus won't make a bootable USB compatible with Mac as it cannot interpret the boot loader (at least not in Mavericks and up). Fat32 can't handle the 5+GB Mavericks image either. Not say you didn't get an older version to work, however, just to keep others from wasting their time. – MC9000 Jan 5 '18 at 20:36.

In the old times, CD/DVD was popular for operating system installation. The operating system images were burned into CD or DVD then the installation was started via CD or DVD. Currently, USB or Flash Drives are popular to install new operating systems like Ubuntu, Windows, Mint, etc. Rufus is a simple tool that is used to burn the operating system images into the USB or Flash Drives.

Rufus Features

Rufus is a simple tool but provides a lot of useful features to create bootable USB/Flash Drive. Here are some of the popular features of Rufus.

• Twice faster then UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool.
• Supports a lot of different languages
• Rufus is an open-source tool which source code can be downloaded from GitHub
• MBR, GPT partition scheme support
• BIOS, UEFI target system support
• FAT32, NTS file system support
• Adjustable cluster size
• Specify the volume name

Download Rufus

Rufus is provided for different platforms and operating system. Rufus mainly used for windows operating system. Rufus can be downloaded from the following link.

If we want to download for ARM, Beta or different versions we can navigate to the Other versions where all download types are provided.

Start Rufus

We will run the downloaded Rufus executable which will ask us Administrative rights. Because burning a USB/Flash disk requires some low-level functions which are only accessible with Administrative privileges. We will click Yes like below to provide.

For the first start, Rufus will ask us if we want to check updates from the internet. We will click to Yes in order to check updates regularly.

Rufus Menu

Rufus is a simple tool with a single screen. All configuration and operation are done via following the single screen. Let’s explain the configuration.

• Drive Properties is a section which contains source and destination drive related options
  • Device is the destination device which is a USB Flash Drive we will burn the iso
  • Boot selection is the type of boot style which should stay default
  • SELECT is the button which is used to select ISO image
  • Persistent partition size is the size which will persistent during boots via USB
  • Partition scheme is the partition scheme which is MBR by default
  • Target system is the type of BIOS
  • Show advanced drive properties will provide some detailed option
• Format Options is a section which contains the name, file system related options
  • Volume label will be used to set the name for the created installation media
  • File system will be used to set the file system of the USB Flash Drive
  • Cluster size will be used to set the size of the cluster of the USB Flash Drive
• Status will print the progress of USB Flash media creation

Download Ubuntu ISO Image

In this tutorial, we will create an Ubuntu Bootable Installation USB/Flash Disk. So we will download the Ubuntu ISO image. Ubuntu ISO images can be download in various ways. In this case, we will download from the Ubuntu web page as below. We will select the latest version 19.04.

The downloaded Ubuntu ISO image has name ubuntu-19.04-desktop-amd64.iso.

Create USB Ubuntu Installation Media

Before starting the USB Ubuntu installation media we have to plug the USB Flash media drive to the system. It will be automatically recognized by the Rufus. Then we will provide the ISO file from the SELECT button of the Rufus like below.

We will see the following screen where we will select the Ubuntu ISO image file and then click to the Open.

We can check provided ISO file validity by calculating hash values. Rufus provides MD5,SHA1 and SHA256 hashes of the given ISO files. We will click on the following check button.

Calculated hash values will be printed with the following message box.

We will start the burning provides by clicking the Start button like below. There will be some questions related to the USB Flash Drive creation.

As new Ubuntu ISO images provide different burning options we have two options ISO Mode or DD Mode. By default, we will select the ISO Mode.

For the last warning, all data stored in the plugged USB media will be deleted. So please take a backup of the USB flash drive. We will click OK to continue.

We will see that the progress will be shown in the Status part of Rufus. There are different phases during a USB installation media creation.

When the burning process is completed we will the Status part as Ready in green color like below.

Rufus Alternatives

Rufus is the most useful and stable USB Flash Disk Installation Media creator there are also some alternatives which provide different features.

Live Linux USB Creator

Live Linux is mainly developed to create Linux USB installation media. It provides a lot of different Linux distributions automatically without any explicit download. It can also add some virtual box software to run the Linux distributions on Windows without a reboot.

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UNetbootin

Unetbootin is a cross-platform USB Flash Disk installation media creator where it supports Windows, Linux, MacOS. /chip27s-challenge-for-mac-free-download.html. It can also automatically download some Linux distributions.

Universal USB Installer

Universal USB Installer is another tool alternative to Rufus. It is a bit outdated and provided by the Pendrivelinux community.

Windows 7 USB Download Tool

As its name contains download but it can also burn Windows 7 Images into the USB Flash Drive.

Windows Media Creation Tool

Windows Media Creation Tool is created for Windows 10 USB Flask Drive. It can also download Windows 10 Images. More details and usage information can be found in the following link.

Rufus for Ubuntu:To use Rufus on Ubuntu you need to download Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ISO image on your device and we will begin with that process. There are other versions of rufus on linux platforms such as mac OS.

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• First you need to check the official site for Ubuntu and click on the desktop button. From here you will download Ubuntu.
• Click on Not Now on whatever notification comes your way and click to Take me to download option.
• Save it and the downloading will start soon. Then you can download Rufus from the official website.
• Download it from the portable link if you want to get Rufus portable.
• Save it and run. Select No when it shows if you want to check the online updates.
• Now it will start with removing the data from the USB drive when you will insert the device, so be aware of moving the data elsewhere if you need them later.
• Insert your drive when Rufus is open to make the Ubuntu toolbar. Rufus will detect it automatically. Click on the CDROM icon to see the file explorer window. The option of 18.04 LTS ISO image is there to select, so click to open it.
• Push the start button and click to confirm the notification. Do not choose anything and choose the default anyways.
• Rufus will take a few minutes to make the Ubuntu bootable drive. After it’s done the Ready status will appear on screen.

Install Rufus Bootable USB Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

If you want to boot the USB drive and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS then you can go to BIOS of motherboard and select the USB drive.

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• Later you will select Try Ubuntu without Installing and click on Live Session User.
• The process will follow on its own, when the option says selecting from normal installation and minimal installation, choose the convenient one and proceed.
• As you are working with new hard drive, there will not be any partition and then you need to select New Partition table at some point.
• Again you will proceed and select the Free Space when a + icon will show up as the EFI System partition will be created.
• The regular process will create boot partition and root partition. Select the location from the menu given on the screen and continue. The installation will be started.
• When it’s done, restart your device.