Making bootable USBs, CDs etc. are easy with graphical applications like Balena-Etcher and more, but what if you don't have that application installed and you need to make a bootable external device?
In this article, we will show you how to make a bootable external device only using the terminal!
1. First, check the name of your external storage device.
![](images/screenshots/bootable-usb-linux/1.png)
2. We'll unmount the external drive now. Replace
/dev/sdb
with your storage device name.
![](images/screenshots/bootable-usb-linux/2.png)
3. Now we'll wipe the drive clean and make an ext4 filesystem. Again, replace
/dev/sdb
with your storage device name.
![](images/screenshots/bootable-usb-linux/3.png)
4. Finally, we'll make it bootable. Replace
/dev/sdb
with your storage device name, and replace manjaro-xfce-21.2.1-220103-linux515.iso
with your ISO image name.
![](images/screenshots/bootable-usb-linux/4.png)