How to create a bootable macOS Big Sur installer drive Put the macOS Big Sur installer on an external USB thumb drive or hard drive and use it to install the operating system on a Mac. If you want to use your USB stick with an Apple Mac, you will need to restart or power-on the Mac with the USB stick inserted while the Option/alt (⌥) key is pressed. This will launch Apple's ‘Startup Manager' which shows bootable devices connected to the machine.
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Got a ISO file and wanna make a bootable USB drive with it ? YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT PLACE. This simple how-to guide will help you to create for bootable pendrive. You can follow this method to make bootable USB pendrive of Windows operating systems, Linux operating systems, and all other ISOs. THIS METHOD SIMPLY CREATE BOOTABLE USB FROM ISO FILE MAC in 3 commands. It works on all the Mac OS X versions like Mountain lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, etc.
Convert the .iso file to .dmg
Its a very simple and quick process. First copy the .ISO file to your desktop. And then open the Command Terminal window and follow the below 2 commands. First command will make Desktop as the current working directory. Second command will convert the .iso file from the desktop and save the converted file and save on the desktop.
cd Desktop/
hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o <converted DMG file name> <source .iso file name>
Eg: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o Converted-windows Windows.iso
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[Note: a file named Converted-windows.dmg will create on Desktop]
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Clean your USB Pendrive
Run the below command to list all the connected physical disks to your MAC. Including your Mac Hard disk and USB pendrives.
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diskutil list
And find your USB pend rive name from the command output. Find your pendrive by checking the 'SIZE' easily. (my pendrive name is /dev/disk2 ) Now run the command below to clean your Pendrive.
diskutil partitiondisk 1 'Free Space' 'unused' '100%'
Eg: diskutil partitiondisk /dev/disk2 1 'Free Space' 'unused' '100%'
Copy and Create bootable USB from ISO file Mac (now from .DMG)
Run windows 8 on mac free. Now copy all the contents in the DMG file to the Pendrive. Follow the below command to copy files and make it bootable.
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sudo dd if=converted.dmg of= bs=1m
Eg: sudo dd if=Converted-windows.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
Now you are all done. Your Pendrive is now ready to boot and install all your stuff. Don't forget to hit like and post your feedbacks as comments.
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