Although it's a bit annoying that I wasn't smart enough to do it with a mac, I'll get over it. This approach worked, and I got a UEFI bootable usb stick, so thanks for your link. It detects the OS X Install program with Spotlight then proposes to build a bootable install disk and make it look as nice as possible. iso file I originally tried to copy with dd. DiskMaker X (was Lion DiskMaker) helps you to build a bootable drive from the official OS X installer app (the one you download from the Mac App Store). Next I tried with the Rufus tool, which got the job done using the same. I negotiated for some computing time on teh wife's pc laptop, and for some reason the microsoft Media Creation Tool (the first option in your link) failed with 'Something Happened 0x80070002 – 0x20016' error code (internets said you could try logging in as admin etc. Doesn't dd work in such a way that it directly writes the input (the dvd image) to the device, and the file system of the image will be copied over what ever the usb stick has?Īnyway, I now have a bootable usb media.
If someone knows the details of this, I'd be happy to learn more.Īlso I don't believe that formatting matters at all. I'm not sure, but I think that all computers are not capable of booting an USB stick that has a file system of an optical media.
In order to install Ubuntu to a portable external USB drive (either disk or stick) we may also use Virtual Box to install from a virtual environment. Which is what I did and it produced the file system I pasted up there. Installing Ubuntu to a removable USB drive with Virtual Box. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
