Identify all drives attached to the system.
Change directory to where the image resides. This is it, you have a bootable OS X usb drive. Advanced: Linux CLI¶ Open a Terminal window. From the first iso, obtained on step 3, copy BaseSystem.chunklist and BaseSystem.dmg on the thumb drive (actually, the latter might not be necessary - but it worked for me at this step and I stopped experimenting). But believe me, you will benefit so much if learn the Linux command line tools. Of course, you can use graphical programs to make a bootable USB in Linux. I know that many of you are scared of the Linux command line.
Mount the thumb drive (you might need to apt-get install hfsprogs to mount an HFS filesystem). In this post, you will learn how to make a bootable USB drive in Linux system using the native Linux tools. In my case (High Sierra 10.13.6), 4Gb stick was sufficient, even though createinstallmedia requires 8Gb.
iso as well ( dmg2iso -i BaseSystem.dmg -o BaseSystem.iso)Ĭopy it to a thumb drive: dd if=BaseSystem.iso of=/dev/sdX BS=1M. 2) downloaded the iso and converted it to img: hdiutil convert debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-1.iso -format UDRW -o debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-1.img. My steps were: 1)erase usb drive using disk utils and create FAT partition (i tried also exFAT and OSX Extended). iso įind BaseSystem.dmg in the mounted image. Any advice how can I debug why my usb did not becamse Debian bootable after those procedures. You can do it from GUI (right click, "Open with disk image mounter") or something like mount -o loop. So, you'll need to find an alternative source.Ĭonvert. This question on apple support has all the links, but they are only accessible from OS X (if you had access to a live OS X at this point - you probably would've just used createinstallmedia already, right?). Unlike El Capitan, High Sierra only needs BaseSystem.dmg, which also has enough free space to boot - so, the process overall can be simplified a bit. So, leaving it here in case somebody else will need to. Back up any data on the flash drive before proceeding to the next step Click the dropdown arrow at the top right to display the available external drives attached to the PC, then click the drive you want to use. Please Note: This will wipe all data on the USB flash drive. I recently had to make a High Sierra 10.13.6 bootable USB drive, and the process turned out a bit more involved that just dd-ing the dmg2img-generated ISO to a thumb drive. First, insert the USB flash drive you want to make bootable.