Burn Linux OS to USB/SD from OSX (Terminal)


Today we'll see a simple way to burn a *Linux* operating system image, any flavor or variety, in a flash drive or SD card with *OSX*. If you are interested ...

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The steps are quite simple:

• Download the iso. We are going to call generically ubunarch.iso (lest you dispute)
• Once downloaded, open the terminal and type the following command:

  
  hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ubunarch.img ubunarch.iso
  

• Now let's see where our *USB/SD* drive are:

  
  diskutil list
  

• Unmount the drive (if not unmounted, re-run the command). N is the drive where you want to install the operating system:

  
  sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
  

• Now we'll copy the image to the device (replacing N by your drive and ubunarch with the name of your file):

  
  date +'Start: %H:%M:%S' && sudo dd if=ubunarch.img bs=1m
  of=/dev/rdiskN
  

• Well done!. Now before removing the drive, unmount it with (keep an eye to N):

  
  diskutil eject /dev/diskN