buf

Bootable USB Flasher is a tool made for flashing .iso/.img files onto USB drives, for booting into operating systems of course... Is it bootable USB flasher or Bryson's USB flasher?

buf is fully cross-platform and open source, under GPL-v3.

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Installation

PREREQUISITES:

• git
• Rust

Linux and macOS

If you're on Arch, or another Arch Linux based distro, you can install off the AUR with yay:

yay -S buf-cli

If you prefer to use paru instead, run paru -S buf-cli

If you're not on Arch:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brysonak/buf/refs/heads/main/Install/install.sh | sh

NOTE: This script will ask for priviledges.

Windows

Run the buf-setup.exe installer from the releases page.

Building

Pre-requisites:

• git
• Rust

Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/brysonak/buf.git

cd buf

cargo build --release

This will produce a binary inside target/release.

To use it straight from the CLI, it's recommended that you add it to PATH on windows. If you're on linux, copy the binary into /usr/bin (or /usr/local/bin) then restart any open shell to use it.