Create Bootable CentOS USB from Mac OS
Posted by cikul | Posted in Linux, Mac OS | Posted on 22-06-2017-05-2008
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Create img file from downloaded iso :
Fors-MacBook-Air:Downloads cikul$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o CentOS-69.img CentOS-6.9-x86_64-minimal.iso Reading CentOS_6.9_Final (Apple_ISO : 0)… ............................................................................................................................................................................................... Reading (Apple_Free : 1)… Elapsed Time: 2.059s Speed: 198.1Mbytes/sec Savings: 0.0% created: /Users/cikul/Downloads/CentOS-69.img.dmg
List All Devices, and umount USB before flashing new image
Fors-MacBook-Air:~ cikul$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage For Sale 120.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Dhika Cikul +120.1 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
EC5A9E2D-8AD9-4317-8AA6-D42A92874136
Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.4 GB disk2
1: Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME 15.4 GB disk2s1
Fors-MacBook-Air:~ cikul$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
Use dd utility to copy the iso/img to USB Flash :
Fors-MacBook-Air:Downloads cikul$ time sudo dd if=CentOS-69.img.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m Password: 408+0 records in 408+0 records out 427819008 bytes transferred in 120.542862 secs (3549103 bytes/sec) real 2m3.909s user 0m0.016s sys 0m7.868s
Done…