Creating a bootable USB drive let's you get hands-on experience with Linux without necessarily overwriting your system.

Perhaps they referenced this guide to create a bootable Live USB on Windows, allowing them to test drive something like Ubuntu without making any changes to their PC.

If you want to install Linux on a desktop, you'll first have to create a bootable USB drive with your distribution of choice. Don't worry. It's easy.

Create a bootable USB stick from Linux I was keeping the best for last. If you are running Linux, you can use the dd command (as in the instructions for macOS above) to create the bootable drive.

So, last night I'm about to upgrade the kernel on my Debian woody system and I check to make sure I have a boot disk in case I mess everything up. Somewhere since I've installed woody, I've lost ...

I don't know what Fedora version you mean exactly, but up to Fedora 1, you could use "/sbin/mkbootdisk", as root, to create a booting floppy disk.

Thankfully, it’s not too difficult to create a bootable install drive from the Mavericks installer. I show you how, below. If your Mac came preinstalled with Mavericks If you own Mavericks only ...