Making a Bootable USB Drive with the dd Command

• sudo dd if=iso of=drive
• lsblk for drive name (probably sdb)
• example

sudo dd if=Downloads/nixos-gnome-22.11.3994.x86_64-linux.iso of=/dev/sdb

Restore USB drive after making it bootable

• erase all partitions on usb drive with fdisk
• create a new partition that takes up the whole drive with fdisk
• create fat32 filesystem on partition (sdb1 is usually the partition but make sure it is the right one with lsblk)

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb1