In either, we have to format the pen-drive to make it bootable so make sure to back up its contents as they will be erased in this process. In this article, we will burn a Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) ISO Image on a removable flash drive.
Burning an ISO image to a physical disc or drive is done when we want to create a disc to install the software or OS on another machine or to boot a system. It should not be confused with its other meaning related to fire. Here “burn” means to produce (a CD or DVD) by copying from an original or master copy.
The same software can now be mounted from an ISO image file which can be downloaded just like any other file. Previously, most of the software and operating systems were sold in the form of a CD/DVD, but in the digital age optical disk readers disappeared from laptops/desktops and so did the physical CDs and DVDs. An ISO file can also be used for backing up optical disks. They are usually used as a softcopy of an optical disk, as nowadays physical optical disks are being used lesser and lesser. It is used to perfectly duplicate the entire contents of a disc as a single ISO file.
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