Installation/FromImgFiles - Community Ubuntu Documentation

Mac OS X

Command Line Interface

  1. Download the desired .img file
  2. Open a Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/)
  3. Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices

  4. Insert your flash media
  5. Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2)

  6. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2)

  7. Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.img, /dev/rdiskN is faster than /dev/diskN). If you see the error dd: Invalid number `1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M.

  8. Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your flash media when the command completes

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Obviously, there won't be any keyboard support for the Mac keyboard, as on 32-bit that's done by a device driver. The volume keys work, but the eject key doesn't. No big deal because you can right click on the DVD drive and select Eject from the context menu. I guess I could hook up a Windows keyboard, but I like the feel of the Apple keyboard.