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Introduction

This guide provides steps to burn a Rocky Linux ISO to a USB.

Environment

Prerequisites 

  • Download the Rocky 9 Kickstart ISO using the link provided by StrongKey.

Steps

  1. Get a USB flash drive with a capacity of at least 16GB.

  2. Plug the USB flash drive in a computer running Linux.

  3. Identify the name of the flash drive as the OS sees it by running the following command

    $ lsblk

    You will get an output similar to the screenshot below:

  4. In this case its sdb. Use the dd command to copy the ISO to the USB flash drive by running the following command:

    $ sudo dd if=<path-to-iso>/<rocky-93-kickstart>.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress
  5. After the dd command is done running you will see an output similar to the screenshot below:

  6. Use the lsblk command again to view the partitions on the USB drive you will see the output similar to the screenshot below: