2021 : How to Create CentOS Bootable USB using RUFUS?

How to Create CentOS Bootable USB using RUFUS?

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IMP Note: For a better understanding of the procedure please watch this video to the end.
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Software Download Link:

https://www.centos.org/download/

https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/

https://rufus.ie/

https://www.rufus.us/download-rufus/
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Rufus Procedure:
1. Select your USB drive from the Device dropdown menu.
2. In Boot selection drop down menu select “Disk or ISO image”
3. Then Click “Select” to locate your Windows 10 ISO file.
4. Select “Partition scheme” as “MBR” and “Target system” as “BIOS”
5. Give your USB drive a descriptive title in the “Volume Label” box.
6. Click “Start”.
7. Press OK
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Rufus is extremely useful in case:
To make an installation media from USB.
1. To make a copy of the BIOS.
2. Need to work on the system without OS.
3. To run special utilities
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How to Make a Bootable device?
A Bootable device should be created on a different system and it can create either manually or using the tools available for this task.
For the manual method, the windows creator should be known as it is more prone to errors.

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How to Create the Bootable Device with Rufus Utility?
Rufus has a large customer base and a reliable tool to create a Bootable hardware device.
It also supports a unified extensible Firmware interface, which is newly released firmware to replace the traditional BIOS system and available on all the new devices.
From Windows 8 onward, it is now possible to install Windows using USB as a portable operating system.
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Things you need while using Rufus Utility
Independent of which methods are in use, few things are required to complete the process successfully:
1. A USB drive with a minimum capacity of 8 GB for a 32-bit system and 8 GB for a 64-bit system. USB should not contain any useful or garbage data, as it impacts the speed of loading the operating system.
2. Download the Rufus utility and start using it.
3. ISO file of the operating system is required which is a library of all the components required to install and it can be acquired by using the CD came with the new system. Rufus utility is faster than the other methods such as USB universal installer.
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Major benefits of using the Rufus Utility
1. Multilingual support, as it supports almost all the languages on every operating system.
2. No need to install extra hardware or software components to use this facility, only download the executable file and start using it.
3. No dependency on the operating system, whether it is Windows 10 or new or 32 or 64-bit, it works for all the versions.
4. In the case of the DOS Bootable device, Rufus will select the keyboard as per the location of the system.
5. All the version of the Rufus utility gives the freedom to network engineer to create the USB from ISO image.
6. The speed of the facility is much higher as compared to other available tools such as RMPrepUSB or WiNtoBootic.
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Advanced Mode of Rufus
You will be able to display advanced options by clicking in the arrow near format options.
Selecting the right option in the create a Bootable disk in the drop down, this mode is also available there to give access to install:
1. Syslinux loader
2. Grub/Grub4DOS loader
3. ReactOS Loader
4. UEFI/NTFS loader
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What are the Uses of USB Flash Drive?
1. Upgrade the system with a new version released.
2. Repair and recover the system in case of a hard drive failure or virus attack.
3. “Clean” re installation on a system.
4. Keeping a copy of the operating system.
5. To use the Portal operating system on a remote computer.