Yumi multiboot usb creator linux

Создание загрузочной флешки с помощью программы YUMI

YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer — «Ваш Универсальный Мультизагрузочный Установщик») — программа для создания мультизагрузочного USB-диска.

Позволяет создать мультизагрузочный USB-накопитель, содержащий операционные системы Linux, Windows, антивирусные утилиты, системы резервного копирования, тестирование систем на проникновение из вне и т.д.

Создание загрузочной флешки

Для создания мультизагрузочной флешки подготовьте USB-накопитель.

Шаг 1. В программе YUMI выберите ваш USB-диск. Укажите формат файловой системы NTFS или FAT32. Если будете создавать загрузочную флешку с Windows 10/11, то следует отформатировать в файловой системе NTFS, иначе программа не сможет скопировать образ на флешку.

Шаг 2. Выберите какую операционную систему или утилиту будете устанавливать (например, Ubuntu, Windows 10, набор инструментов Sergei Strelec). Для некоторых Linux дистрибутивов и инструментов доступна опция « Download link » с помощью которой можно перейти на сайт разработчика дистрибутива и скачать ISO-образ.

Шаг 3. После скачивания дистрибутива, укажите путь к ранее сохраненному ISO-файлу.

Шаг 4. Параметр « Set a Persistent file size for storing changes (Optional) » позволяет выделить место на накопителе для сохранения настроек и профилей пользователей для некоторых дистрибутивов Linux. Для FAT32 максимальный размер — 4096 МБ, для NTFS — 11780 МБ.

Нажмите кнопку « Create » для создания мультизагрузочной флешки.

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10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image

CD and DVD writers are a thing of the past. You are not likely to find them in modern-day laptops. If your goal is to create a bootable medium, then creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO file remains your best option.

There are quite a number of tools that can help you create a bootable USB drive. Some will even go further and let you create a multi-boot USB drive where you get to choose the OS that you want to install.

Here are some of the widely-used utilities for creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO file in Linux desktop systems.

1. Rufus

We start off our list with Rufus which is arguably one of the most popular bootable USB creation utilities. It’s a free tool that you can download and create bootable USB pen drives, memory sticks, etc. It is particularly helpful when you want to create a USB installation medium from an ISO image or work on a system with no OS installed.

Rufus is a portable utility that comes with a small footprint – 1.3MB only. No installation is required. You just need to double-click on the executable file to launch the UI and start creating your USB bootable medium from an ISO image of your choice (both Windows and Linux).

Unfortunately, Rufus is only supported on Windows and the developer has not yet ported it to Linux as yet. If you are looking for an alternative that works on Linux, read on.

2. UNetbootin

UNetbootin is a free and cross-platform utility for creating live bootable USB drives using an ISO image from all the major Linux distributions, even the lesser-known ones such as Tails, and AntiX.

It doesn’t employ distribution-specific rules for creating bootable USB drives, and therefore, most of the Linux ISO images should load without a problem.

Apart from creating a Live bootable medium, you get other system repair tools and utilities for example:

• Parted Magic
• SystemRescueCD
• Smart Boot Manager
• Dr.Web AntivirusF-Secure Rescue CD
• Super Grub Disk
• Backtrack
• Ophcrack

3. Balena Etcher

Developed & Maintained by the Balena team, Balena Etcher is a free and open source for writing image files such as .img and .iso onto USB drives and creating Live bootable pen drives and SD cards.

Etcher is a cross-platform tool and is available for download on Windows, macOS, and Linux (both 32-bit and 64-bit). It provides a very elegant yet simple UI that provides a smooth experience while writing your image files.

4. Ventoy

Ventoy is yet another utility that lets you not only create an ordinary USB bootable medium but also allows you to create a multiboot USB drive with several OS options.

In fact, Ventoy takes away the need to format your USB drive over and over again. Simply copy the ISO file to your Pendrive drive and boot it. You can copy multiple ISO files concurrently and Ventoy will provide a boot menu to select your preferred image to boot from. Ventoy supports over 420 ISO files.

• Cross-platform (Windows, Linux).
• Support for both Legacy and UEFI BIOS modes.
• Support for ISO images larger than 4GB.
• MBR and GPT partition style supported (1.0.15+).
• USB drive write-protected support.
• You can directly boot from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. No extraction is required.

And many more. Check out Ventoy’s additional features.

5. Universal USB Installer

Abbreviated as UUI, Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux Bootable USB Creator Software that allows you to easily create a bootable USB from your favorite Linux distribution or Windows installer. It runs only on the Windows operating system.

In addition to that, you also get additional tools such as USB Boot Rescue tools such as Comodo and BitDefender Rescue CD, and bootable software such as Hirens Boot CD.

6. Yumi

Yumi – short for ‘Your Universal Multiboot Installer’ – is another tool that you can leverage to create a multiboot USB drive. It’s the predecessor of the Universal USB installer and allows you to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple ISO files on the fly and start using it to boot your preferred Live Linux OS.

Key features of Yumi USB creator include:

• Runs only on the Windows operating system.
• An option to reformat your USB drive.
• Support for both Legacy and UEFI BIOS modes.
• Affinity for Ubuntu-derived Distributions.
• Download links to make it easy to get the related ISO files.
• A website link to help you learn more about the YUMI.
• A feature to remove installed items on the USB drive to facilitate cleanup.

7. PowerISO

PowerISO is a robust and fully-featured application for burning CDs/DVDs. In addition, It allows you to extract, burn, create, encrypt, compress, and convert ISO images and mount them on an external drive.

It provides an all-in-one solution allowing you to do whatever you want with your files.

At a glance, PowerISO allows you to:

• Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Create a bootable USB drive from an ISO image.
• Create bootable ISO files and create bootable CDs and DVDs.
• Open and extract ISO files with a single click.
• Rip multimedia files including audio files such as MP3, WMA FLAC.
• Burn audio files from MP3, and WMA FLAC to CDs / DVDs.
• Ability to edit ISO files directly.
• Create ISO or BIN files from CDs / DVDs.

8. GNOME Multiwriter

GNOME Multi-writer is a utility for Linux systems that is used to write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at a go.

It supports USB drives of up to 32GB in size. It was originally written as part of the ColorHug project, but later on, shifted direction and became an independent application in 2015.

9. MultiBootUSB

MultiBootUSB is a free and open-source cross-platform tool that also allows users to install multiple Live Linux distributions on a USB drive and boot from it. It provides a simple and user-friendly UI that enhances the seamless creation of the bootable USB drive.

• Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Automatic detection of ISO files.
• Works on both USB and external hard drives.
• Preservation of files on the USB drive without deletion.
• Installed images can be uninstalled without affecting other files in the drive.
• Ability to install multiple distributions at a time on the command line.
• The list of supported distributions is constantly updating.

10. ImageUSB Writer

Last on the list is the ImageUSB Writer. Just like GNOME multi-writer and multi-boot USB, this is a free utility for Windows systems only that allows you to write an ISO file concurrently to several USB devices. It also supports direct imaging between the devices.

ImageUSB writer is also a perfect tool for mass duplication of USB flash drives. The application is also capable of reformatting a USB device, as well as MBR and GPT entries for wider disk space.

That was a roundup of some of the utilities that you can leverage to create a bootable USB drive from an ISO image in Linux. We have compiled tools that work on both Linux and Windows in case you are working on either system. That is all for now. Your feedback is highly welcome.

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Create a Multiboot USB with YUMI

On this post we will cover how you can create a multiboot USB with YUMI and loaded it with multiple different operating systems. With this you will be able to run multiple different OS installations. In this example, we downloaded three different ISO’s of three different operating system’s and loaded all three operating systems on our USB drive, one Windows 10 and two Linux OS – Linux Mint and Ubuntu.

Requirements for this process:

1. Empty USB drive(8 GB or more recommended)
2. YUMI apllication – Download here
3. ISO’s of the operating systems.

Underneath you can find a video tutorial as well:

When you start the YUMI, you will see it has couple of steps and options. First step is to select your USB drive. After you select the USB, select the option – We will Fat32 format(Note, do this only for the first time).

Second step is to select the OS you’re going to load on the USB, so in that drop down selection you’ll have operating systems listed. Select the one you need.

Third step is to select the .ISO of your operating system. Click on the browse button and find the location of your .ISO and select it.

When you finish all this, click on the create button on the bottom of the application.

When you click the create button, the application will warn you about the data loss since it will format the USB. So, again make sure you don’t have anything important on the USB. Click on the YES button to proceed.

The process can take a while to finish. Once it’d done, the application will prompt you again that it’s finished and do you want to add another OS on your USB.

Adding another OS

Click on YES to add more. The application will bring you again to the first set-up page and just start again. Select the USB, select the operating system and select the .ISO of the system… BUT this time you DO NOT choose the option to fat32 format the USB, you only need to that for the first time.

Again, once you did everything, click on the CREATE button and the process will start. Once the process is done, the application will prompt you again do you want to add more operating systems. So just repeat this process for each OS you want to add and for how many OS you need to add. The process is pretty simple and straightforward.

FInishing up

When you finish adding the operating systems, click NO at the end of the process, close the application, reboot the PC and boot the USB. You will get a bootloader screen that looks like in the pictures bellow and that you have made a multiboot usb successfully:

Summary

We covered the method how to create a multiboot usb with yumi and installed multiple different operating systems. Multiboot usb is a nice tool to have in your pocket if you’re in a need to have not just different operating systems ready to install but also having other bootable tools as well, such as – recovery media to recover crashed operating system or recover a backup, to quickly boot hirens, or have a imaging tool to save an image of your PC machine to have backed up completely as well and so on.

I hope you found the post useful and easy to follow. Thank your for your time.

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