This is what happen..! - Creating a USB key boot drive

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Creating a USB key boot drive

Like every good unix person, I like to run some flavor of Linux on my PC computer. So since I got the cool Vaio P, I wanted to try the lates and greates Ubuntu release. I didn’t want to trash my Windows partition or repartition everything to make some space for Linux.

Here comes the Ubuntu USB key.

It’s all specified on there website. You can make your key in Linux with dd, you can use some other program on Windows. Well I didn’t have a Linux computer, Cygwin with dd didn’t work for me and I had a shit load of problems with OS X. Here’s how I finally made it work on OS X.

These are my notes.

Plug your usb key and verify which drive it is.
- diskutil list
Unmount your usb key.
- diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Copy your image file on the key.
- dd if=image.file of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
Eject your usb key.
- diskutil eject /dev/disk1
Here you go, you’re done.

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