New Method using Etcher
- Make sure you have a USB Stick with at least 4GB of free space.
- Get your Ubuntu ISO from here.
- Open Disk Utility from Applications > Utilities
- Select the USB stick and select Erase (This will remove all data stored on the USB drive)
- Select the format: MS-DOS (FAT) and scheme: GUID Partition Map
Click
Erase- Download, install and open Etcher (By default MacOS blocks running apps from unidentified developers. Follow this tutorial if you are experiencing problems with this.)
- Select image and navigate to the location you saved the Ubuntu ISO you have downloaded in step 2
- Select the USB drive you have formatted in step 3-6.
Click
Flash- Congratulations! You now have Ubuntu on a USB stick, bootable and ready to go!
Old Method using UNetbootin (might still work)
- Make sure you have a USB Stick with at least 4GB of free space.
- Download and install UNetbootin USB installer
- Download The Ubuntu Desktop ISO of your choice
Launch UNetbootin and allow the osascript to make changes
Select the Diskimage radio button and then click the ... button
Select the ubuntu ISO file you downloaded and click 'Open'
- Then select your flash drive in the bottom row and click 'OK'
- After Unetbootin finishes, click 'Exit' and now you have yourself an Ubuntu USB stick.
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Answer from Cyber_Star on askubuntu.comNew Method using Etcher
- Make sure you have a USB Stick with at least 4GB of free space.
- Get your Ubuntu ISO from here.
- Open Disk Utility from Applications > Utilities
- Select the USB stick and select Erase (This will remove all data stored on the USB drive)
- Select the format: MS-DOS (FAT) and scheme: GUID Partition Map
Click
Erase- Download, install and open Etcher (By default MacOS blocks running apps from unidentified developers. Follow this tutorial if you are experiencing problems with this.)
- Select image and navigate to the location you saved the Ubuntu ISO you have downloaded in step 2
- Select the USB drive you have formatted in step 3-6.
Click
Flash- Congratulations! You now have Ubuntu on a USB stick, bootable and ready to go!
Old Method using UNetbootin (might still work)
- Make sure you have a USB Stick with at least 4GB of free space.
- Download and install UNetbootin USB installer
- Download The Ubuntu Desktop ISO of your choice
Launch UNetbootin and allow the osascript to make changes
Select the Diskimage radio button and then click the ... button
Select the ubuntu ISO file you downloaded and click 'Open'
- Then select your flash drive in the bottom row and click 'OK'
- After Unetbootin finishes, click 'Exit' and now you have yourself an Ubuntu USB stick.
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1) Find the file path to your USB drive with
diskutil list external
You're looking for /dev/diskN. It's probably /dev/disk2, but double check that the NAME and SIZE columns make sense. The dd command you're going to run later will effectively delete all data on the drive so don't get this wrong. If that command produces no output, your USB drive is probably not plugged in.
2) Unmount the device so you can overwrite it (change N to the number you got from the previous step)
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
3) Use dd to copy the .iso image to the USB with
sudo dd if=/path/to/your/iso-file.iso of=/dev/diskN
That step will take a while. When it's finished you might get an error saying that the disk can't be read, you can click "Eject" and you're done; use your USB stick to boot Ubuntu. If you don't get that error, you should eject it with 4)
diskutil eject /dev/diskN
You can speed up the dd command by adding bs=1m (if you get the invalid number: ‘1m’ error change "m" to an uppercase "M" (this can happen if you installed a newer version of coreutils with homebrew)) and using /dev/rdiskN instead of /dev/diskN (use /dev/diskN for the diskutil commands though). You can get dd to report progress with status=progress. This would all look like
sudo dd bs=1m status=progress if=ubuntu-19.10-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/rdiskN
With my cheap USB 2.0 drive I get 3.6 MB/s (9 minutes) with these options vs 0.8 MB/s (40 minutes) without them.
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I would suggest using a command line utility, dd.
- Attach the USB that you intend to use, note that this process will fully wipe it.
- List the drives/partitions with
diskutil list(find the/dev/disk#) - Run
dd if=/Users/USERNAME/Downloads/ubuntu-13.04x64.iso of=/dev/disk# bs=1M
Once that appears to be done, type sync and make sure your drive is written to. That should be all you need, just be sure to not mistype anything - since you could kill your main drive by overwriting sectors.
Ubuntu provides step by step instructions on how to accomplish this
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
Hello, I have an iMac 27’’ 5K 2017 running Ventura 13.6. Intel based I’m trying to create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu on it so I could boot on it
I don’t want to have an installer on this USB drive but a full Ubuntu system
Disk utility can see my drive
I have followed https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#1-overview to build the ubuntu disk
I also reset the SMV/NVRAM (https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/reset-mac-smc-nvram/)
Booting and pressing on « option » to choose a drive to boot from only shows the internal drive. How can I have my drive show in the boot menu ?
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my old Mac Mini (mid-2011), and I want to completely erase macOS and run Linux only. I've watched a bunch of videos and read some guides, but I can't seem to get it working.
I've tried creating a bootable USB with Ubuntu multiple times using Etcher, Rufus, and Ventoy, but my Mac doesn't recognize the USB drive. When I plug it in and check the drive info in the Disk Utility, it says "Bootable: No".
For reference, here are the specs of my Mac Mini:
Model: Mid-2011 Mac Mini
macOS: High Sierra (10.13.6)
CPU: Intel Core i5 2.3 GHz
RAM: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 (512 MB)
Has anyone run into this before or found a reliable method to get Ubuntu booting on this machine? Any help or tips would be super appreciated!
Thanks!
EDIT: SOLVED – Ended up installing a new SSD and unplugging the HDD (which had macOS on it). Booted with my USB (I used Etcher). Thanks guys for your suggestion.
I wasn't quite sure if this was a Windows, mac, or ubuntu question so posting here in the hope someone has experienced this before.
Situatuon:
Bought an old mac mini i want to use as an ubuntu server
Mac mini connected to tv to confirm it's working ok (currently on snowleopard)
Airport not strong enough to get wifi, screen too far away from router to use ethernet cable, so can't use mac to download and create bootable drive (won't be an issue when it's set up and I can run it headless as I can leave it in the cabinet wired to router)
Created ubuntu server bootable usb drive using windows laptop with rufus
Inseted usb drive and booted into mac boot managent
Usb drive not visible
My first question is if what I have done, preparing the bootable drive in windows, has any impact? Is it even possible to do this or must it be prepared on a mac?