{"id":1342,"date":"2015-08-11T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2015-08-11T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:29:57","slug":"burn-an-iso-on-a-usb-drive-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/mac-os\/1342","title":{"rendered":"burn an ISO on a USB drive on Mac OS X?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/desktop\/get-ubuntu\/download\">Ubuntu download page<\/a> (my formatting):<\/p>\n<ol>\n    <li>Download the desired file<\/li>\n    <li>Open the Terminal (in \/Applications\/Utilities\/ or query Terminal in Spotlight)<\/li>\n    <li>Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil (e.g., <code>hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~\/path\/to\/target.img ~\/path\/to\/ubuntu.iso<\/code>)<\/li>\n    <li>Note: OS X tends to put the .dmg ending on the output file automatically. Remove the .dmg extension as necessary, <code>mv ~\/path\/to\/target.img{.dmg,}<\/code><\/li>\n    <li>Run <code>diskutil list<\/code> to get the current list of devices<\/li>\n    <li>Insert your flash media<\/li>\n    <li>Run <code>diskutil list<\/code> again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. <code>\/dev\/disk2<\/code>)<\/li>\n    <li>Run <code>diskutil unmountDisk \/dev\/diskN<\/code> (replace <code>N<\/code> with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, <code>N<\/code> would be 2)<\/li>\n    <li>Execute <code>sudo dd if=\/path\/to\/downloaded.img of=\/dev\/rdiskN bs=1m<\/code> (replace <code>\/path\/to\/downloaded.img<\/code> with the path where the image file is located; for example, <code>.\/ubuntu.img<\/code> or <code>.\/ubuntu.dmg<\/code>).<\/li>\n    <li>Using <code>\/dev\/rdisk<\/code> instead of <code>\/dev\/disk<\/code> may be faster.\n<ul>\n    <li>If you see the error <code>dd: Invalid number '1m'<\/code>, you are using GNU <code>dd<\/code>. Use the same command but replace <code>bs=1m<\/code> with <code>bs=1M<\/code>.<\/li>\n    <li>If you see the error <code>dd: \/dev\/diskN: Resource busy<\/code>, make sure the disk is not in use. Start the &#8216;Disk Utility.app&#8217; and unmount (don&#8217;t eject) the drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>Run <code>diskutil eject \/dev\/diskN<\/code> and remove your flash media when the command completes<\/li>\n    <li>Restart your Mac and hold down <kbd>Alt<\/kbd> while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB stick<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note: On newer Macs you <em>might<\/em> have to install an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsbooks.com\/refind\/\">EFI boot manager<\/a> to boot from USB.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directly from the Ubuntu download page (my formatting): Download the desired file Open the Terminal &#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[425,142,139,342,202],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os","tag-dmg","tag-flash","tag-iso","tag-mac","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nick.txtcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}