After doing this the USB should then appear as a bootable device while holding in the alt or c key when you are rebooting the computer. a USB stick) to show up at all in the boot menu you also may have to reboot/turn on/off the computer a couple of times and also re sync the partition tables using rEFIt. When booting of the USB device the following message or something similar will appear: “Missing operating system” and the process is auto-matically halted. Please notice: While all of the info and above commands are executed properly on a MacBook Air 3,2 (that is the 2010 version 13″ version of the Air) the end result will not create a bootable USB device, at least not with the image for Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. Restart your Mac and press alt while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB-Stick Start the Disk Utility.app and unmount (don’t eject) the drive.Īnd remove your flash media when the command completesġ2.
TIP: Drag and Drop a file from Finder to Terminal to ‘paste’ the full path without typing and risking type errors. img file that you will be needed to create from the. But if you would prefer to use a USB, please follow the instructions below. We would encourage Mac users to download Ubuntu Desktop Edition by burning a CD for the time being. If attempting to make a USB drive that can be booted from a Mac, follow the instructions below. The resulting USB drive, however, can be booted on PCs only.
UNetbootin for Mac OS X can be used to computerize the process of extracting the Ubuntu ISO file to USB, and making the USB drive bootable.