This video describes how to install the Ubuntu ISO onto a USB drive on OS X10.9. --V-- More Info & Links Below --V--My persistence (your files will save when shutting down) tutorial is out! To live boot into Linux on Mac, you will first have to create a Live USB for the distro you want. We’re demonstrating this using Ubuntu 14.10 “Yakkety Yak”, on a MacBook Air running the latest version of macOS Sierra.
The Problem RELATED: Apple’s made it difficult to boot non-Mac OS X operating systems off of USB drives. While you can connect an external CD/DVD drive to your Mac and boot from standard Linux live CDs and USBs, simply connecting a Linux live USB drive created by to a Mac won’t work. There are several ways around this. For example, Ubuntu offers some that involve converting the USB drive’s file system and making its partitions bootable, but some people report these instructions won’t work for them. There’s a reason Ubuntu recommends just burning a disc. Should allow you to boot those USB drives if you install it on your Mac.
But you don’t have to install this alternative UEFI boot manager on your Mac. The solution below should allow you to create Linux live USB drives that will boot on modern Macs without any additional fiddling or anything extra — insert, reboot, and go. Use Mac Linux USB Loader RELATED: A tool named “” by SevenBits worked well for us.
This Mac application will allow you to create USB drives with your preferred Linux distro on them from within Mac OS X in just a few clicks. You can then reboot and boot those USB drives to use the Linux distribution from the live system. Note: Be sure to move the Mac Linux USB Loader application to your Applications folder before running it. This will avoid a missing “Enterprise Source” error later. First, insert the USB drive into your Mac.
Check that the USB drive is formatted with an MS-DOS (FAT) partition. If it isn’t, delete the partition and create a FAT partition — not an ExFAT partition. Next, open the Mac Linux USB Loader application you downloaded. Select the “Create Live USB” option if you’ve already downloaded a Linux ISO file. If not, select the “Distribution Downloader” option to easily download Linux distribution ISOs for use with this tool.
Select the Linux distribution’s ISO file you downloaded and choose a connected USB drive to put the Linux system on. Choose the appropriate options and click “Begin Installation” to continue. Mac Linux USB Loader will create a bootable USB drive that will work on your Mac and boot into that Linux distribution without any problems or hacks. Before booting the drive, you may want to change some other options here.
For example, you can set up “persistence” on the drive and part of the USB drive will be reserved for your files and settings. This only works for Ubuntu-based distributions. Click “Persistence Manager” on the main screen, choose your drive, select how much of the drive should be reserved for persistent data, and click “Create Persistence” to enable this.
Booting the Drive RELATED: To actually boot the drive, reboot your Mac. You’ll see the boot options menu appear. Select the connected USB drive.
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The Mac will boot the Linux system from the connected USB drive. If your Mac just boots to the login screen and you don’t see the boot options menu, reboot your Mac again and hold down the Option key earlier in the boot process. This solution will allow you to boot common Linux USB drives on your Mac. You can just boot and use them normally without modifying your system. Exercise caution before attempting to. That’s a more involved process.
We are live in modern world, nobody wants to go from the DVD shop for buy DVD for windows or buy online and wait for delivery. At least, I am not because too lazy ? If you have an USB drive that you don’t use anymore. You can turn it into an operating install disk for Windows, Linux or Mac. There are many different ways of create a bootable USB. You can use software for that or you can also use command line. Here is a quick guide that will show how you can make a bootable USB Create bootable USB using Rufus Rufus is an open source tool that will help you to create a bootable USB form any bootable ISO.
Note: Create bootable USB using Rufus you need to have an ISO image of the operating system Features:. Easy to use to use (If you don’t know command language you can use it. Its free and quick). Ability to create any type of bootable USB (You can bootable USB from any bootable ISO).
No need to install just download and use. Small in size How to use Rufus Step 1: Plug in USB into your computer and Download Rufus once download complete then run it. Step 2: When it start, you will see the option “File System” chose NTFS as the file system. Step 3: In “Format options“ check “Quick format” and Create extended label and icon files.
Step 4: Check “Create a bootable disk using” and next to it in dropdown menu select “ISO image” and click drive right to the ISO image and brows your ISO image you want to bootable. Step 5: Click start. When you click start button the popup appear it takes 5 – 10min, once it’s complete your done. Note: Make sure you don’t have important data in your flash drive because when you click start Rufus will format USB and you will loss all your data.
Create bootable USB for Windows 7 and Visa using command Prompt Step 1: Run command prompt as an administrator. Step 2: Type command diskpart.
Step 3: Type list disk to display connected disks. Step 4: Type select disk # replace # with the number the USB drive that you want to bootable. Step 5: Type command clean that will clean your USB drive. Step 6: Type create partition primary that will create bootable partition. Step 6: Type select partition 1 and press enter when partition 1 is selected type active. Step 7: Format USB drive using command fs=fat32 (It will takes few minutes). Step 8: Type assign command for assign the USB drive.
Step 9: Copy operating system Windows 7 or Vista and past into the USB. (your done!).
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