Creating bootable USB on a Mac - is the dd command working?

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#1

Hi, I’m a new user and trying to create my first bootable USB on a Mac, want USB rather than CD because I also hope to install it on my new ASUS EEE PC. I’ve successfully navigated the instructions to download openSUSE and prepare the USB (unmount), but have run # dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/diskN bs=4k in Terminal and its now unresponsive (the user$ hasn’t reappeared). The instructions (SDB:Live USB stick - openSUSE) mentioned it should ask for an administrator code but it didn’t, I’ve waited around two hours and presume it should have written the file by now? Last command was Tim-and-Jesss-iMac:~ JessandTim$ dd if=/Users/JessandTim/Downloads/openSUSE-12.1-DVD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=4k - am I missing anything simple here? Not sure what to do, any advice appreciated, thanks!

#2

For anyone else who has this issue. It worked fine, just never asked for the password and took a few hours

#3

So you may be good, but another resource for LiveUSB creating is a bash script I have written you can find here:

http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/s-c-l-u-suse-create-live-usb-version-1-00-82/

Thank You,