# Creating a USB Boot Stick

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308>\
**Category:** RancherOS\
**Created:** [October 14, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308 "2016-10-14T06:25:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Guido\_Steiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/guido_steiner/32/5862_2.png) [@Guido\_Steiner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Guido_Steiner)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308/1 "2016-10-14T06:25:03Z")

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I want to install RancherOS on my PCEngine Board and created therefor a a USB Bootstick with Rufus but regardless what options i choose the RancherOS.iso dosn’t boot.

Any tips on this?

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**Author:** ![Guido\_Steiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/guido_steiner/32/5862_2.png) [@Guido\_Steiner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Guido_Steiner)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308/2 "2016-10-14T10:35:56Z")

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Ok got my own solution.

Installed RancherOS in Virtualbox. Coneverted Disk with vboxmanage to raw and used tinylinux to boot on my pcengine board and installed the raw image with dd on my SSD.

It works 🙂

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**Author:** ![tzrlk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/tzrlk/32/2533_2.png) [@tzrlk](https://forums.suse.com/u/tzrlk)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308/3 "2017-06-09T01:56:54Z")

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That’s both hilarious and ridiculous. I ended up using [Rufus](https://rufus.akeo.ie/) to make the usb disk bootable, though I’d have preferred something a little more scriptable (cli support [is on the cards](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/111) at least).

Sorry for the zombie-post, but there really isn’t a lot of up-to-date information on how to get RancherOS to a point where it’s running, and more importantly, useful.

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**Author:** ![SvenDowideit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/svendowideit/32/2159_2.png) [@SvenDowideit](https://forums.suse.com/u/SvenDowideit)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308/4 "2017-06-09T03:07:37Z")

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to make a bootable usb key, I use `dd if=rancheros.iso of=/dev/sdb`

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**Author:** ![askar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@askar](https://forums.suse.com/u/askar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308/5 "2017-06-12T12:02:14Z")

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If I correctly understand you, you could use [http://clonezilla.org/](http://clonezilla.org/)

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**Author:** ![roki-play](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@roki-play](https://forums.suse.com/u/roki-play)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/creating-a-usb-boot-stick/4308/6 "2017-06-30T07:26:16Z")

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hey guys…i used etcher to create a bootable usb and it works. i just selected the iso and did flash. link : [https://etcher.io/](https://etcher.io/)