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Steps to create a bootable USB drive for Linux

These steps work near-flawlessly on a OSX operating system to create Linux bootable drives.

  1. Download the ISO (or torrent, and extract the ISO);
  2. Erase USB using Disk Utility application. It should be Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and GUID Partition Map;
  3. Run diskutil list to get the number (N) of the disk you are putting Linux onto, and then run diskutil unmoundDisk /dev/diskN;
  4. cd ~/Downloads;
  5. hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o outputfile.img sourcefile.iso
  6. sudo dd if=<file made in step 5> of=/dev/diskN bs=1m
  7. DO NOT CLICK THE POP-UP! Once step 6 is done, simply run disktuil eject /dev/diskN. (Now you can click ignore).
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