How to Create bootable USB from ISO on Mac using Terminal.

How to create bootable USB on Mac using the command line. In the video I am doing it with Debian ISO but this method could be applied to any ISO.

[misterpurist]

Finally, someone who knows what he's doing. Thank you !!!

[paul.bateson]

Brilliant! I was honestly ready to throw my beloved MacBook out the nearest window, after trying a few other "solutions" online. The step-by-step instructions on the web is icing on the cake! Thank you sir!

[Promitheas]

As simple as it could be! Thank you very much!

[stephenhosking]

Excellent. Worked for me "as is", just from the command line. Other solutions were convoluted, and wanted me to download third party tools.

I especially commend the way you cautiously proceeded at the start with "sudo disk utils list" without the USB drive connected, and then after, so that once doesn't erase the wrong thing!!!

[netenute]

This worked for me for a 5GB ISO with Ubuntu on a Macbook pro. Thanks so much for the video.
You need to open the terminal from the folder where you have the ISO by right clicking the folder and choosing "New Terminal from Folder." I hadn't used terminals in years and didn't figure this out, at first I just opened a normal terminal. Thanks again for sharing the info.

[DennisLovelady]

Well done. Straight to the point. Helped me tremendously! Thank you!

[renatoherrmann]

That was simple and direct, very useful. Thank you

[YeungLorentz]

fabulous straight forward content, thank you man!

[junderwoituk]

Works like a dream, thanks very much 👍 100🌟

[instantdiscovery]

Might be useful for some to have a visual on progress; add "status=progress" to the dd command

[catherinereed]

Sorry, I can't add to my previous comment... I meant to say that I'm enjoying learning how to use command line. Now a new question...you said "if you feel more comfortable working with GUI vs command line..." but isn't using terminal GUI??

[AdamGordon]

Thank-you for the easy to follow video! 😊I actually completed the steps as you described on your website (didn't format the drive as you did in the video). It all went pretty smoothly, but I didn't seem to get the alert saying the drive wasn't readable. I can still read the data and dig into the files that were copied over from the ISO. Will this cause me problems when I come to install on my new PC, or should it be okay?

[alvarorodriguezgomez]

amazing content, I was resisting using etcher since it was unverified and i try to keep my security habits up at all time. One question, what do mount and unmount mean? Because I was doing an USB bootloader for w10 a couple hours ago and just mount the iso, copy the files and save them was apparently enough for it to work according to the tutorial.

Thank you very much again

[stevepetrak]

Worked the second time. I had my USB flash drive formatted MacOS and that caused failure. I reformatted FAT32 and then everything went smooth.

[andresaldanha]

Thank you for the video, I have a m1 mac and it is not working for me, even after downloading the apple arm64 kali linux image. After flashing it into the disk, the option doesn't appear when rebooting, why is this happening?

[discoHR]

Why bother when at the end you just overwrite everything you previously did with dd command? You can just do the dd command with the same result.

[catherinereed]

Hello TechTutelage, and thank you for your help! I'm a complete novice and your video is amazing assistance. I'm making a bootable USB to get into a Gateway laptop that I don't have the password for (I've read that if I make a bootable disk, I can use that to bypass the login and then turn passwords off or change them).

My question to you is this: what are all the letters and numbers that you have prior to the iso file path, after unmounting? I'm referring to the "-rw-r--r@ 1 admin staff (9-digit number here) January 26 21:14" all followed by your file path. I can't find that you've mentioned what they are or where they came from. Do I need those with current date? Please help!

[deepakraghav]

Hi, Thanks for video....But. I saw only Network option when tried to install windows from Apple server and saw this (“the installer information on the recovery server is damaged”.).. Then I followed your video and made bootable USB and tried again using Option but didn't saw any usb there. There was only network option...It's macbook 2017 so installing same high sierra. Please help me to resolve the issue so I can use MAC. Actually, I erased everything and it shows question mark only.

[nbcviper]

I am not getting the error at the end? File size is 318 MB

[Dukkidan]

So, it doesn't work. The command "dd if" doesn't work because it doesn't find the file. where should I put the iso so that the command will find it? 2:08