You’re now ready to format the target drive and ‘burn’ the ISO to that USB volume – this will erase all data on the target drive replacing it with the ISO, this can not be undone – it is absolutely critical that you target the proper identifier to avoid unintended data loss. Unmount the target volume using the following command, replacing the identifier as appropriate:Īgain using the above example, which is not universally applicable: Locate the USB volume name of the target drive ( in this example, “THE_DESTINATION” ) and make note of the identifier ( in this example, “disk3s2” )įind the disk identifier with diskutil list to direct dd to This may look something like the following, it will be different on every Mac:Ġ: GUID_partition_scheme * 251.0 GB disk0ģ: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.1 MB disk0s3Ġ: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD * 249.8 GB disk1 Type the following command to print a list of attached volumes on the Mac: Attach the target USB drive to the Mac if you haven’t done so yet, then launch Terminal
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