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Creating bootable USB drive from iso.
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# sometimes creates it as .img.dmg if so just mv *.img.dmg to *.img
hdiutil convert /path/to/.iso -format UDRW -o /path/to/target.img
# determine the mount *generally for me /dev/disk2*
diskutil list
# unmount the disk where N is the disk number
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
# write the img to the usb disk
sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m
# eject the usb disk
diskutil eject /dev/diskN
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