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ROSA Image Writer

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Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can...

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
Discontinued

Last update was in 2016.

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  1.  Create bootable USB
  2.  Create bootable Image

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  • usb-creator
  • os-utilities
  • image-writer

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ROSA Image Writer information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about ROSA Image Writer, and it has gotten 13 likes

ROSA Image Writer was added to AlternativeTo by cpfotiadis on Oct 8, 2016 and this page was last updated Feb 14, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
tuva-hayabi
Nov 29, 2019
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Very small program, easy to understand, no frills. It just works (as root).

What is ROSA Image Writer?

Optical drives are rapidly disappearing from our computers of all kinds, and consequently installing operating systems from USB flash disks is becoming increasingly popular. ISO images of the ROSA Linux distribution were originally intended for burning to DVD disks, but they can as well be written to flash disks which would allow you to boot from them and launch the Live system or start installation. There is no standard tool for writing images to flash disks, everybody uses what they like. In ROSA the command line tool dd was traditionally recommended for performing this kind of job. However, it can hardly be called user-friendly, and most users would feel at least some discomfort, if not terror, using it. For Windows users the situation is even worse. Granted, there is a dd port for Windows, but it happened to have serious bugs which prevent the resultant flash disks from working properly. All this led to the solution of developing our own tool, ROSA Image Writer.