Welcome, I had a problem with homeassistant installation - I couldn’t see zwave usb stick on vm. want to try installing on bootable usb. I am not experienced with linux 
is a USB BOOTABLE version available for PC? Unfortunately I can’t find anything
Greeting
Michal
This is one of many tutorials on creating a bootable Linux USB:
How to Create a Bootable Linux USB Flash Drive, the Easy Way (howtogeek.com)