Making an Arch Linux USB Flash Install Medium

01/17/2018

Tags: arch linux usb

I managed to mess up my USB installation medium tonight… managed to turn it into a NTFS, read-only USB, so I couldn’t delete anything.

Since I just wanted to delete everything, I just wiped the drive using parted, downloaded the iso, and copied it using dd.

Parted Wipe

parted \dev\sdb
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart 0% 100%

Then format:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

dd

Then download an iso from one of the online repositories. Suppose we place it in ~/archlinux.iso. The command to copy the image onto the USB is:

sudo dd bs=4M if=~/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress oflag=sync

That’s it!

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