Method 2: Creating a Bootable USB Drive from Mac. If you need to create a bootable USB Drive with the Ubuntu distribution from a Mac, there’s no other native way to do it than from using the Terminal. However, we’re going to show you a much simpler way to do this.
Once you have downloaded that, launch it to get started by following the steps below:. Upon launch, you need to accept the agreement. Next, you need to select the option “ Create Installation media (USB Flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC” and click “ Next.“. You will now be asked to choose the language, edition, and the architecture of the Windows.
So, select that as per your requirements. Proceed by clicking “ Next“. Now, you will be prompted to select the preferred media. Select “ USB flash drive” and make sure that the is an 8 GB storage variant at least. Select the USB device from the list. Here’s how it should look like:. Finally, the required files will be automatically downloaded, and the USB flash drive will be converted to a bootable USB media.
And, all the existing contents on the flash drive will be deleted before making a bootable Windows 10 bootable USB. You can then utilize this bootable USB to install/upgrade windows. Download the ISO and Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB using Rufus Rufus is one of the most popular tools to help make a bootable Windows 10 USB. But, before using Rufus, you need to download the Windows 10 ISO file from the. Note: You need to visit the download page from a different OS (Ubuntu, Mac)/ your smartphone / via proxy services like Hide.me – else you will only get the option to download the media creation tool.
Here’s how it should look like when you click on the download page. Now, you need to select the edition (currently – Windows 10 April 2018 Update) and click “ Confirm.” Once you’re done with it, you will be asked to select the product language (here it’s English / English International.) So, accordingly proceed further to get the download links to Windows 10 32-bit/64-bit. Note: The links generated will be valid for 24 hours from the time of creation. So, you need to download the ISO file before the link expires. Considering you have the image file now, you should proceed to download from its official site. Follow the steps below to make a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive using Rufus:. After downloading the setup file from Rufus’ official site, run the EXE file to launch the tool.
As soon as you launch the tool, it will automatically detect the USB flash drive. If you have multiple USB flash drives, select the one you desire. Now, you need to select the image file by clicking on the option as directed in the image below (make sure everything’s similar to what the picture depicts):.
Once you select the ISO file, you just have to click on “ Start” and wait it out. It should take a few minutes for completion. Additional Tip: If you want to make a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 10 on a different OS ( like Ubuntu, Mac), you can utilize to create it.
The Problem RELATED: Apple’s made it difficult to boot non-Mac OS X operating systems off of USB drives. While you can connect an external CD/DVD drive to your Mac and boot from standard Linux live CDs and USBs, simply connecting a Linux live USB drive created by to a Mac won’t work. There are several ways around this. For example, Ubuntu offers some that involve converting the USB drive’s file system and making its partitions bootable, but some people report these instructions won’t work for them. There’s a reason Ubuntu recommends just burning a disc. Should allow you to boot those USB drives if you install it on your Mac. But you don’t have to install this alternative UEFI boot manager on your Mac.
The solution below should allow you to create Linux live USB drives that will boot on modern Macs without any additional fiddling or anything extra — insert, reboot, and go. Use Mac Linux USB Loader RELATED: A tool named “” by SevenBits worked well for us.
This Mac application will allow you to create USB drives with your preferred Linux distro on them from within Mac OS X in just a few clicks. You can then reboot and boot those USB drives to use the Linux distribution from the live system.
Note: Be sure to move the Mac Linux USB Loader application to your Applications folder before running it. This will avoid a missing “Enterprise Source” error later. First, insert the USB drive into your Mac.
Check that the USB drive is formatted with an MS-DOS (FAT) partition. If it isn’t, delete the partition and create a FAT partition — not an ExFAT partition. Next, open the Mac Linux USB Loader application you downloaded. Select the “Create Live USB” option if you’ve already downloaded a Linux ISO file. If not, select the “Distribution Downloader” option to easily download Linux distribution ISOs for use with this tool. Select the Linux distribution’s ISO file you downloaded and choose a connected USB drive to put the Linux system on. Choose the appropriate options and click “Begin Installation” to continue.
Mac Linux USB Loader will create a bootable USB drive that will work on your Mac and boot into that Linux distribution without any problems or hacks. Before booting the drive, you may want to change some other options here.
For example, you can set up “persistence” on the drive and part of the USB drive will be reserved for your files and settings. This only works for Ubuntu-based distributions. Click “Persistence Manager” on the main screen, choose your drive, select how much of the drive should be reserved for persistent data, and click “Create Persistence” to enable this.
Booting the Drive RELATED: To actually boot the drive, reboot your Mac. You’ll see the boot options menu appear.
Select the connected USB drive. The Mac will boot the Linux system from the connected USB drive. If your Mac just boots to the login screen and you don’t see the boot options menu, reboot your Mac again and hold down the Option key earlier in the boot process.
This solution will allow you to boot common Linux USB drives on your Mac. You can just boot and use them normally without modifying your system.
Exercise caution before attempting to. That’s a more involved process.