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Problem with setting up a bootable USB on corrupted OSX

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http://askubuntu.com – I cant access the desktop because my harddrive is corrupted. Therefore I want to make a bootable USB stick so i can transfer all of my important files to my External HD. Problem is that Im stuck on Step 3 ---> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx . Im not sure of what i should change this to: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso It says convert failed - No such file or directory. Obviously the problem is that i dont know the path to the USB, maybe you know how to find out? Please help me. Thanks. ps. Ive downloaded the ubu (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 08/31/2012

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I cant access the desktop because my harddrive is corrupted. Therefore I want to make a bootable USB stick so i can transfer all of my important files to my External HD.

I already try the code that comes in the "how to create a bootable usb stick" but still cant obtain the correct file, every time a try it send a message: "hdiutil: convert failed - this file doesn't exist", what can i do? My computer it's running Mac OS 10.6.8. I already have ubuntu in a PC, like the OS so i want it form my mac.

Okay, so I've made a Bootable USB Stick using theese instructions: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

Now I have no idea what to do next to install it. Please help

I downloaded Ubuntu .iso file from ubuntu.com and wanted to make a bootable USB stick from my MacBook Pro, I use OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) I followed those instructions: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx When I did do the "sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m" command, in 88 seconds it said "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.

I'm following the instructions to create a bootable Ubuntu 12.10 USB stick on OS X found here. I can do step 3 and hdiutil appears to work fine, but when I go to mount the resulting ubuntu.img file I get the same "no mountable file systems" error that I get when I try and open the ubuntu.iso file.

I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick on OS X using http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx

When this finishes, I get a message in terminal saying "695+1 records in 695+1 records out 729067520 bytes transferred in 264.563662 secs (2755736 bytes/sec)"

But a message pops up saying "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

Options are Initialize, Ignor

Is there any way to make a bootable ubuntu usb stick from an ubuntu iso image in OSX?

I have a Macbookpro and I'm planning to create a multiple boot.

I've downloaded the Ubuntu 12.10 iso and followed the instructions on http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows. After I tried the usb disk I got to the Ubuntu live menu, but after choosing run live ubuntu the systems freezes and restarts itself. I've tried this on a Lenovo T61p, an HP pavilion and an Acer Aspire One; all the same results.

I've been trying to do this since yesterday, following the instructions given on ubuntu.com's official page here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx

I can complete every step without error. However, when restarting the mac, the flash drive simply reports 'missing operating system, press any key...'.