To prepare the USB stick, we recommend to use a system where GNU/Linux is
already running and where USB is supported. With current GNU/Linux systems
the USB stick should be automatically recognized when you insert it. If
it is not you should check that the usb-storage kernel module is loaded.
When the USB stick is inserted, it will be mapped to a device named
/dev/sdX
, where the “X” is a letter
in the range a-z. You should be able to see to which device the USB
stick was mapped by running the command lsblk before
and after inserting it. (The output of dmesg (as root) is
another possible method for that.)
To write to your stick, you may have to turn off its write
protection switch.
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Warning |
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The procedures described in this section will destroy anything already on the device! Make very sure that you use the correct device name for your USB stick. If you use the wrong device the result could be that all information on, for example, a hard disk is lost. |