Creating bootable USB flash drives on Raspberry Pi

Introduction

Etcher is a free program for burning images (ZIP, img, iso) to various media, such as USB sticks and SD cards for Raspberry Pi.

Etcher is easy to use and ensures efficient burning thanks to its image verification function. Etcher lets you create a bootable Live USB key or external USB hard disk from the Raspberry Pi.

The user interface lets you select the disc image to be burned, plug in the USB media and start burning2.

Automatic detection of USB and SD card storage media.
Does not select hard disks. So you can’t accidentally destroy data on a hard disk;

To install Balena Etcher on the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to use an application manager called “Pi-app”, which lets you install any kind of software on your board.

You can download it from the following link:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Once you’ve downloaded the link, click on the icon that appears on your desktop. You will need to confirm that you wish to run the executable:

Once the manager is installed, you will need to search for Balena Etcher :

Once you’ve found it, all you have to do is install the software:

Voici le déroulement de l’installation :

You can now flash your media from an image or even clone a hard disk: