![]() ![]() If used incorrectly, it is possible to corrupt the hard drive of your Mac rendering it unable to boot from disk. Note: Use Caution when using this command. To create the USB drive, the dd command is used to copy and convert a file. ![]() STEP 7 - Use dd to Create the Bootable USB Drive STEP 6 - Use diskutil to unmount disk2 $ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful STEP 5 - Use diskutil to list mounted disks on your system $ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage 499.4 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *499.0 GB disk1 Logical Volume on disk0s2 C9E034D8–8CA0–4ED8-A365-FAE91BD52197 Unencrypted /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.6 GB disk2 1: DOS_FAT_32 COPYLEFT 15.6 GB disk2s1Īs we can see above… the Copyleft USB is /dev/disk2 So, now you should have two files in your staging directory $ ls Elapsed Time: 2.869s Speed: 228.3Mbytes/sec Savings: 0.0% created: /Users/brian.hooper/Downloads/ubuntu-iso/.dmg STEP 4- Use the hdiutil command to format the ISO Image $ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)… Reading Ubuntu-Server 16.04 LTS amd64 (Apple_ISO : 1)… Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)… Reading Ubuntu-Server 16.04 LTS amd64 (Apple_ISO : 3)…………………………………………………………………………………………. STEP 3- Move ISO to the Staging Directory and CD into the Directory $ mv ubuntu-iso/ $ cd ubuntu-iso/ STEP 2 - Make a Staging Directory $ mkdir ubuntu-iso This quick tutorial will show you how to create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive using a Mac that will boot or install Ubuntu on a PC. One of my favorite server distributions is Ubuntu. ![]() Create a Bootable USB for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for a PC using Mac OSX ![]()
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