favorite tools for working with disk OS images, quickly?

[cdev]

what tools do you use for writing bootable disk images?

I'm on the amd64 hardware platform.

[Alex Eisenhut]

You mean to create an .iso or to write an .iso to a usb key?

[coromonadalix]

what are the images files,   img   iso  etc ....  you ask  but give little information

poweriso
powerarchiver
ultraiso


rufus

[cdev]

They are .iso and .img files on HardenedBSD and FreeBSD variants. Writing the file to a USB disk took hours and the finished USB filesystem when I finished appeared to not have been erased and recreated using unetbootin and I don't want to waste hours again like that.

[cdev]

Yes.

To write the iso or .img file to make a bootable USB Installer/OS. I am trying to install PFsense or OPNsense serial version..

You mean to create an .iso or to write an .iso to a usb key?

[YurkshireLad]

Will Balena's Etcher or Raspberry Pi's Image Writer work for you?

[cdev]

thank you. That looks like exactly what I was looking for.

[Alex Eisenhut]

I use Rufus.
https://rufus.ie/