I bought a Macbook Air yesterday after Dell lost my laptop from their service centre last month. And among the first few things I did was to dual boot Mac OS X with Ubuntu Linux. I’ll cover up Linux installation on Macbook in later articles as first we need to learn how to create a bootable Ubuntu USB drive for Mac in OS X. While it is fairly easy to create a bootable USB in Ubuntu or in Windows, it is not the same story in Mac OS X. This is why the official Ubuntu guide suggest to use a disk rather than USB for live Ubuntu in Mac. Considering my Macbook Air neither has a CD drive nor do I possess a DVD, I preferred to create a live USB in Mac OS X. Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive in Mac OS X As I said earlier, creating a bootable USB in Mac OS X is a tricky procedure, be it for Ubuntu or any other bootable OS.
How to Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive on Windows. January 8, 2018. Create bootable Ubuntu USB Drive. Meaning you cannot use this USB Drive as your portable computer, but you can boot up an Ubuntu session on any PC with it.
But don’t worry, following all the steps carefully will have you going. Let’s see what you need to for a bootable USB: Step 1: Format the USB drive Apple is known for defining its own standards and no surprises that Mac OS X has its own file system type known as Mac OS Extended. So the first thing you would need to do is to format your USB drive in Mac OS Extended format. To format the USB drive, plug in the USB key. Go to Disk Utility program from Launchpad (A rocket symboled icon in the bottom plank).
In Disk Utility, from the left hand pane, select the USB drive to format. Click the Partition tab in the right side pane. From the drop-down menu, select 1 Partition. Name this drive anything you desire. Next, change the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) The screenshot below should help you. There is one last thing to do before we go with formatting the USB. Click the Options button in the right side pane and make sure that the partition scheme is GUID Partition Table.
When all is set to go, just hit the Apply button. It will give you a warning message about formatting the USB drive. Of course hit the Partition button to format the USB drive. Step 2: Download Ubuntu Of course, you need to download ISO image of Ubuntu desktop. Since you are using a Macbook Air, I suggest you to download the 64 Bit version of whichever version you want. Ubuntu 14.04 is the latest LTS version, and this is what I would recommend to you. Step 3: Convert ISO to IMG The file you downloaded is in ISO format but we need it to be in IMG format.
This can be easily done using command tool. Open a terminal, either from Launchpad or from the Spotlight, and then use the following command to convert the ISO to IMG format: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Path-to-IMG-file /Path-to-ISO-file Normally the downloaded file should be in /Downloads directory.
So for me, the command is like this: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Downloads/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64 /Downloads/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso You might notice that I did not put a IMG extension to the newly converted file. It is fine as the extension is symbolic and it is the file type that matters not the file name extension. Also, the converted file may have an additional.dmg extension added to it by Mac OS X. Don’t worry, it’s normal. Step 4: Get the device number for USB drive The next thing is to get the device number for the USB drive. Run the following command in terminal: diskutil list It will list all the ‘disks’ currently available in the system.
You should be able to identify the USB disk by its size. To avoid confusion, I would suggest that you should have just one USB drive plugged in. In my case, the device number is 2 (for a USB of size 8 GB): /dev/disk2 When you got the disk number, run the following command: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN Where N is the device number for the USB you got previously. So, in my case, the above command becomes: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 The result should be: Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful. Step 5: Creating the bootable USB drive of Ubuntu in Mac OS X And finally we come to the final step of creating the bootable USB drive. We shall be using which is a very powerful and must be used with caution. Therefore, do remember the correct device number of your USB drive or else you might end up corrupting Mac OS X.
Use the following command in terminal: sudo dd if=/Path-to-IMG-DMG-file of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m Here, we are using dd (copy and convert) to copy and convert input file (if) IMG to diskN. I hope you remember where you put the converted IMG file, in step 3. For me the command was like this: sudo dd if=/Downloads/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.dmg of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m As we are running the above command with super user privileges (sudo), it will require you to enter the password. Similar to Linux, you won’t see any asterisks or something to indicate that you have entered some keyboard input, but that’s the way Unix terminal behaves.
Even after you enter the password, you won’t see any immediate output and that’s normal. It will take a few minutes for the process to complete. Step 6: Complete the bootable USB drive process Once the dd command finishes its process, you may see a dialogue box saying: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Everything is just fine. Just don’t click either of Initialize, Ignore or Eject just now.
Go back to the terminal. You’ll see some information about the last completed process.
For me it was: 1109+1 records in 1109+1 records out bytes transferred in 77.611025 secs (14984164 bytes/sec) Now, in the terminal use the following command to eject our USB disk: diskutil eject /dev/diskN N is of course the device number we have used previously which is 2 in my case: diskutil eject /dev/disk2 Once ejected, click on Ignore in the dialogue box that appeared previously. Now your bootable USB disk is ready. Remove it from the system. Step 7: Checking your newly created bootable USB disk Once you have completed the mammoth task of creating a live USB of USB in Mac OS X, it is time to test your efforts. Plugin the bootable USB and reboot the system. At start up when the Apple tune starts up, press and hold option (or alt) key. This should present you with the available disks to boot in to.
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I presume you know what to do next. For me it showed tow EFI boot: I selected the first one and it took me straight to Grub screen: I hope this guide helped you to create a bootable USB disk of Ubuntu for Mac in OS X. We’ll see how to dual boot Ubuntu with OS X in next article.
Installing an operating system is easy task to do, but before installing you need a USB or DVD drive. It’s important to have to do installation. Many users get stucked in this situation but don’t worry here its easy to do with the following steps.
To install an operating system on a PC which is installed windows or any other operating system is something hard to do as well its a bit confusing on how to create bootable USB drive for e.g; if you want to install Ubuntu on a windows then you have to create a USB drive in Ubuntu or if you want to install Windows on a Mac then you have to create a bootable USB drive in Mac and then install it. It’s different and difficult to do in your operating system. However, there are different ways to create bootable USB drive in your operating system but here in this guide, we will show you how to do it easily by the following procedure.
Create Bootable USB Stick in Windows To create bootable USB drive for windows, make sure that your USB/DVD is at least 8GB or larger and working fine. You can also do it from our previous article based on? Before start creating bootable USB stick download and install the, also you should have the Windows ISO image you want to install. 1. Insert the USB stick and open Windows USB/DVD Download Tool, browse the ISO file/source file and click Next. Bootable USB Created Note: While copying the files don’t take out the USB or turn off your PC otherwise your flash drive will be destroyed. Create a Bootable USB Stick in Mac OS To create bootable USB stick on Mac OS make sure that the USB drive is at least 8GB or larger and working fine.
Before start creating bootable download and install and make sure that you have the Mac OS ISO image file you’re going to install. 1. Open DiskMaker X and choose the Mac OS edition you want to make USB bootable. Continue 7. Wait for serveral minutes until the login page appears then login in it and click ok. It will take about 20 minutes to complete and when it completed just quit the page and restart your Mac.
After restarting your USB flash drive will be bootable successfully and you can use it to install Mac on any PC. Create a Bootable USB Stick in Ubuntu/Linux To create bootable USB stick on Ubuntu/Linux make sure that the USB drive is at least 8GB or larger and working fine. Before start creating bootable, make sure that you have the ISO image file of the Ubuntu or Linux you want to install. 1. Insert the USB drive and open Startup Disk Creator.