Select an ISO file or a distribution to download, select a target drive (USB Drive or Hard Disk), then reboot once done.

Insert USB drive, and format it to MS-FAT32 using Disk Utility then follow this How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X Ubuntu guide verbatim ( update: I wasn't as verbatim as I thought! see comment under accepted answer).

#Startup disk creator ubuntu terminal how to# If your USB drive doesnt show up, reformat it as FAT32. If you used the 'USB Drive' install mode: After rebooting, boot from the USB drive. Insert USB drive with existing formatting open Unetbootin, using the same ISO, create a USB installer disk.On PCs, this usually involves pressing a button such as Esc or F12. I ended up creating the boot disk with the same ISO using a different computer running Ubuntu, using the Startup Disk Creator - thus I have confidence the ISO is fine - but I'm stuck wondering, how can I do this with my OS X computer (currently with 10.8.5)?įor me it has always worked (albeit building Mint install usb pen drives DOS MBR partitioned) using Terminal, and as per the instructions on the Linux Mint website ( ), which I copy below: In both cases, when I explicitly tell my Dell computer to boot from the 'USB Device', I get an error along the lines of 'Can't find valid boot disk press F1 to try again'. Sudo dd if=~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso of=/dev/sdx oflag=direct bs=1048576 #Startup disk creator ubuntu terminal install# Where '~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso' is the name and location of your downloaded image (located at the desktop in this example) and '/dev/sdx' is the target USB drive. If your system doesn't support 'oflag=direct', you can just leave it out as it is simply intended to speed up the process a bit. Remember, don't include an integer for the USB drive, e.g. When the USB has been properly created by 'dd', there should be an output similar to this: '/dev/sdx1', as it would refer to the existing partition on that drive and not the drive itself.

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