SanDisk USB Flash Drive * in the BIOS as the first boot device. You can now remove the USB Flash drive and use it to boot into Fedora by selecting The reason for using rdisk2 on Mac is because it runs really slow using /dev/disk2 on my system for some reason. Note: On Linux you may need to change the bs=1m to bs=1M and remove the r prefix from diskX. It should take a couple of minutes to copy and then you’ll see the following output: 1556+0 records inġ631584256 bytes transferred in 120.953180 secs (13489387 bytes/sec) sudo dd if=~/Downloads/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m
MAC BURN ISO INTO USB ISO
Warning: Make sure the USB device is empty or the data has been backed up and you chose the correct device number when running the following commands or you will LOSE your data.Īssuming you’ve downloaded the ISO to the Downloads folder, run the following command to copy the ISO to the USB Flash Drive (replace disk2 with the disk number of the USB on your system). Step 3: Copy the Fedora ISO to the USB Flash Drive Now click on File and then Open Disk Image. The ISO image will show up in the left-hand side along with the list of hard drives, etc. Click on the ISO file and then click on the Burn button at the top. Pop your disc into the drive and click the Burn button to start the process. Unmount the external disk by running the following command (replace /dev/disk2 with the disk number of the USB found on your system): diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 As mentioned earlier, this no longer works on OS X 10.11 El Capitan. You’ll be able to see what drive is by running the diskutil list command before and after inserting the drive. macbook:~ tony$ diskutil listĢ: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.7 GB disk0s2Ġ: APFS Container Scheme - +250.7 GB disk1ġ: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 68.2 GB disk1s1 In the example below you’ll notice /dev/disk2 has the word external in brackets and is 15.4 GB with no partition information. Insert the USB Flash drive into the system and then run the following command to find out what the name of the disk is: diskutil list The following steps have been tested on aġ6GB SanDisk USB Flash Drive * on a MacBook (should also work on Linux because we’ll be using the dd command line utility to write the ISO to the USB). You’ll need to download the latest Fedora ISO and own a USB Flash Drive.
MAC BURN ISO INTO USB HOW TO
This tutorial will show you how to copy a Fedora ISO image to a USB Flash Drive and make it bootable so that you can use it to install Fedora.