How To Create Bootable Live USB Of Linux Mint

By April 16, 2015Hacking Tutorial

Creating Linux Mint USB In Mac :

  1. Insert Your Flash Drive
  2. open disk utility and format your USB drive ( fat32 , MBR partition )FormatUSB
  3. Place your downloaded ISO on desktop
  4. Open Terminal ( Applications>>Utilities >> Terminal
  5. Convert Your ISO to IMG
    hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o  output.img  sourceLinux.iso

    IN my case

    Convert ISO to IMG

  6. Now Rename output.img.dmg ( it’s added by apple by default ) and remove DMG extension
  7. Now list all available disk to identify your USB drive letter
    diskutil list


    diskutil list

  8. Now Unmount USB Using  diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX ( remove X with your drive number )
    diskutil unmountDisk /dev/rdisk2
  9. Now
     sudo dd if=linuxmint.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m

    ( NOTE : Choose source img and target device carefully )

    Copying

  10. wait until it finish
  11. Reboot your Mac and press alt/option key while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB stick.Final Linux USB booted

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