Comments on: Create bootable USB stick from ISO in Mac OS X https://blog.tinned-software.net/create-bootable-usb-stick-from-iso-in-mac-os-x/ Tinned-Software Blog Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Gerhard https://blog.tinned-software.net/create-bootable-usb-stick-from-iso-in-mac-os-x/#comment-22 Sat, 31 May 2014 12:27:12 +0000 http://blog.tinned-software.net/?p=1082#comment-22 Hi Gerhard,

thanks for you blog, i really like it. It’s clean and easy to overlook.

One hint:
If “dd” is at work, you can easily press “STRG+T“ and it will print the current status for you.

Regards,
Chris

]]> By: Gerhard https://blog.tinned-software.net/create-bootable-usb-stick-from-iso-in-mac-os-x/#comment-11 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:30:45 +0000 http://blog.tinned-software.net/?p=1082#comment-11 Thanks to John for pointing out some slightly different behaviour in Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).

While Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) allows you to execute the “dd” command with your user priviledges, Mavericks does not.

So if you are using Mavericks and get the “Permission” error, the solution is to use sudo. Sudo allows you to run the “dd” command with root priviledges. While the root user is disabled in Mac OS X by default, sudo is allowed for users which have the “Allow user to administer this computer” option set.

When using sudo as shown below, you will be asked for your password to proceed. 

$ sudo dd if=destination_file.img.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

Please keep in mind that after you have entered the password, the dd command does not show any output. So please be patient until the dd command has finished.

Thanks again to John for pointing this out!

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