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1. CREATE LINUX LITE BOOTABLE USB FOR A MAC HOW TO
2. CREATE LINUX LITE BOOTABLE USB FOR A MAC PRO
3. CREATE LINUX LITE BOOTABLE USB FOR A MAC ISO

If you use the dd program (coming up shortly) on your Mac’s hard drive, instead of the USB stick, your data will be toast! You have been warned! It is VERY important that you take note of the correct disk here. You can see in my screenshot that /dev/disk0 is the Mac’s hard drive, disk1 is the USB stick in my case (note the name I gave it, UBUNTU). Take a note of what device name your newly initialised USB disk is. Use the ‘diskutil list’ command as per the above screenshot (click the image to see it clearer). Launch that and you’ll get a blank text window. Next up, open another inbuilt Utility on the Mac, this time it’s called Terminal. Step 3: Identify the disk and unmount it Use diskutil to list the available disks I also gave it a name of UBUNTU so it is easy to identify in the following steps, however this is not required.Ĭlick on the Erase button. Make sure you choose ‘GUID Partition Map’ from the Scheme dropdown. When you click Erase, you’ll get a few options. Once you’ve found it, click on it (making sure you definitely have the right disk), and press Erase. I’ve circled my one on the left hand side. When you launch the app, find the USB stick icon. Launch that App, and you’ll see something similar to the below screenshot: Mac Disk Utility In Utilities you’ll find an Apple app called ‘Disk Utility’.

To initialise your USB stick, go to your Applications menu. It’s commonly known as ‘Formatting’, but those Cupertino Cliques like to call it ‘Initialise’ instead 🙂 Regardless of whether you have a blank USB stick, or one with lots of files, you are going to need to completely erase the contents of it.

It’s time to pop your USB stick in your Mac. If you are downloading Ubuntu, you can get it here: Step 2: Erase / Format / Initialise your USB Stick

CREATE LINUX LITE BOOTABLE USB FOR A MAC ISO

This may seem obvious – but just in case you haven’t already downloaded your Linux distro, make sure you grab the right one for your machine (if it’s a new Mac, it’s going to be the 64-bit ISO image – the filename usually ends amd64.iso.

CREATE LINUX LITE BOOTABLE USB FOR A MAC HOW TO

If you want a full tutorial on how to install Linux on a Mac computer, check out our guide. However, this is 2016, and people don’t have CDRW drives any more, so let’s find out how to do this on your beloved mac. USB sticks were more meant to pop regular files onto, not disk images. They weren’t really intended to be put onto USB sticks. In the past, we’d ‘burn’ this image onto a blank CD or DVD. So, just to be clear, you have downloaded Linux (say Ubuntu) from the Ubuntu website. Unfortunately, Mac users have to go through a few more hurdles to get an ISO image onto a USB stick in order to make it boot properly. If you’ve used tools like UNetBootin before, then you’ll have found it a nice easy graphical way on a PC. So, you’ve got a mac computer and you want to put the ISO you just downloaded onto it.

CREATE LINUX LITE BOOTABLE USB FOR A MAC PRO