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HOW TO USE TERMINAL TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB STICK FROM AN ISO FILE ON MAC OS X


sam@macbook iso % ls -l                           
total 103931336
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff    716177408 Feb 16 18:46 CentOS-8.3.2011-x86_64-boot.iso
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff    719323136 Feb 16 18:56 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-33-1.2.iso
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff    362465280 Feb 16 19:24 FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff   4830789632 Feb 16 21:23 Qubes-R4.0.3-x86_64.iso
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff   3875536896 Feb 16 20:13 slackware64-live-current.iso
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff   1184440320 Feb 16 18:57 tails-amd64-4.15.1.iso


sam@macbook iso % hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o tails.img tails-amd64-4.15.1.iso 
Reading TAILS 4.15.1 - 20210127          (Apple_ISO : 0)…
......................................................................................................
Reading  (Apple_Free : 1)…
Elapsed Time:  2.687s
Speed: 420.3Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/sam/Documents/iso/tails.img.dmg
sam@macbook iso % ls -l tails*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff  1184440320 Feb 16 18:57 tails-amd64-4.15.1.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 sam  staff  1184440320 Feb 21 16:55 tails.img.dmg
sam@macbook iso % diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk1⁩         500.0 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume ⁨HD MAC - Data⁩           185.5 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩                 313.6 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩                613.7 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume ⁨VM⁩                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume ⁨HD MAC⁩                  15.1 GB    disk1s5
   6:              APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update-...⁩ 15.1 GB    disk1s5s1

/dev/disk2 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS ⁨TIMEBOX⁩                 +2.0 TB     disk3
                                 Logical Volume on disk2s2
                                 48E44BE2-FBEB-4548-9012-69A6467E4F49
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *30.4 GB    disk4
   1:               Windows_NTFS ⁨MYUSBKEY⁩                    30.4 GB    disk4s1

sam@macbook iso % diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
Unmount of all volumes on disk4 was successful


sam@macbook iso % pwd        
/Users/sam/Documents/iso


sam@macbook iso % ls -l tails*                   
-rw-r--r--@ 1 sam  staff  1184440320 Feb 16 18:57 tails-amd64-4.15.1.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 sam  staff  1184440320 Feb 21 16:55 tails.img.dmg


sam@macbook iso % sudo dd if=tails.img.dmg of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m
Password:
1129+1 records in
1129+1 records out
1184440320 bytes transferred in 74.803781 secs (15833963 bytes/sec)


sam@macbook iso % diskutil eject /dev/disk4
Disk /dev/disk4 ejected