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[ubuntu] Making a bootable USB

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Well, this is my problem. I have an .iso of MAC OS X that I need to put on my USB to be installed on my macbook. The problem is I cannot find a suitable program that will perform these functions. I have tried Startup Disk Creator but when I select the .iso it does not put it in the .iso field to be put on the USB drive. So if anyone has an idea of how to make a bootable USB containing a MAC OS X .iso using ubuntu 12.04 (My current operating system) I would gladly appreciate it! (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 10/29/2012

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I'm trying to make a bootable installation USB drive. I've tried usb-creator-gtk, and it starts working only to fail with a segmentation fault, leaving a non-bootable drive. I've tried "unetbootin", and it makes a bootable drive that cannot even begin an installation successfully.

Hello, I have a macbook 2,1 running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The problem I have is it is not recognizing my USB stick when rebooting trying to boot the OS I have put on the stick. I have used unetbootin and startup disk creator, following the instructions to a T. I have tried with 5 different OS's including Backtrack5, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Opensuse.

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precise-desktop-amd64.iso: refit manages to boot this one, and I select "Try Ubuntu without installing", add the nomodeset option, but it fails to load X and goes to a command prompt.

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I'm trying to boot Xubuntu from USB Flash Drive on my old laptop Fujitsu-Siemens but it shows "Missing Operating system. Operating System not found". Although the Flash Drive works on my current laptop. Can I make DOS USB Flash Drive with (x)Ubuntu Live CD on it? I tried various windows programs to make a bootable USB, and Xubuntu Startup-disk without success.

I've found guides that explain how to make a bootable disk for macs using macs, but I want to use ubuntu to make this mac-bootable disk. Is there a way to do that?

In other words, I have:

a laptop that runs only ubuntu a 4GB usb thumb drive a Mac Mini 5,1 with non-working OSX Lion

and I'd like to install ubuntu on the Mac Mini.

I've downloaded the daily Ubuntu 12.04 iso.

I currently have windows 7 x64 operating system installed.

How can I make a bootable usb from the Ubuntu iso?

I have tried many times to make a bootable USB drive to run Ubuntu from my MacBook Air and have failed many times, the instructions that are given are somewhat confusing mostly because I am most definitely not a professional.

Can you give me some detailed instructions? Preferably a how-to video, that would make it a lot more clear.