Anthony Smith Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Okay, I've been Googling this for the last couple hours and have tried several different things and I'm having no luck. Using my MacBook Pro I want to create a bootable USB flash drive from a Linux ISO to install on my netbook. I've tried the command: sudo dd if=~/Downloads/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m Whenever I boot my netbook with the USB flash drive attached after doing this it continues to boot into Windows. I have the netbook configured to boot from USB before the HDD. I'm not sure what else there is to do. When I look at the information for the USB volume it says bootable: no. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201630-iso-to-usb-flash-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Smith Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Just tried an external USB hard drive with the same outcome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201630-iso-to-usb-flash-drive/#findComment-1355380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilLoz Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 If you had a windows box, or linux box, it would be easy you can get a flash drive to boot a linux iso with unetbootin unfortunately there isn't a version for MacOS or BSD Hope this helps though Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201630-iso-to-usb-flash-drive/#findComment-1355405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Smith Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 I'll boot up a VM and see what I can do. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201630-iso-to-usb-flash-drive/#findComment-1355688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Smith Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Still no luck. Perhaps something is wrong with my flash drive. It was my flash drive. Unetbootin in a Windows VM did the trick. Thanks a lot for the help. I'll try the dd option again for others who are trying to find a Mac option. Again, thanks for the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201630-iso-to-usb-flash-drive/#findComment-1355707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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