Program To Make Bootable Usb Install The OS

To install the OS of your choice, USB sticks provide you the easiest possibility.

In fact, it can even work out cheaper than burning a CD or DVD that you just throw away once the version is outdated.

This image format is sadly not directly usable to copy onto the USB stick.

The following command will convert the ISO image to the UDRW format.

This is not a problem as the file extension wont affect the format of the image.

Depending on your system configuration your output might look different from this one.

The devdisk1 is a virtual disk created because of the partition encryption ( FileVault 2 ) I enabled in Mac OS X.

For the following steps we will need the name of the disk which in this case is devdisk2.

If you check it again with diskutil list you will see the changes already, also the USB stick will no longer be shown in the Finder.

This command will copy the image to the disk (substitute the appropriate disk name for your USB stick here, as with the re-partitioning command).

After this is done, the bootable USB stick is ready to be used.

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While the root user is disabled in Mac OS X by default, sudo is allowed for users which have the Allow user to administer this computer option set.

Program To Make Bootable Usb For Mac