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There are many programs in the market that can handle it for you. But you can do it with default Mac OS X tools. Those steps must be made in terminal. You need to know what you are doing and have root password to your system. Here is your step by step guide to do it: 1. Convert your image. You need to change the image type from .iso to .img that dd util supports. To do this type a command like this: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /path/to/destination/file.img /path/to/source/file.iso You must see output similar to this: Reading Image File Name Here (Apple_UDF : 0)…... [ truncated ] ............................. Elapsed Time: 4m 57.725s Speed: 20.9Mbytes/sec Savings: 0.0% created: /path/to/image/file.img.dmg 2. Remove the .dmg extension. mv /path/to/image/file.img.dmg /path/to/image/file.img 3. Get your flash drive device name. You can do it in various ways. one that is using standard utils here: diskutil list This will list all your disks mounted...

Here are my first steps. And I hope you will find something useful here, while configuring your Pi... First of all. Mine have been bought on ebay, from resellers. And were delivered a while ago. Main purpose of this purchase war to attach a headless server to my router. I have 2 external HDD's and would like to have torrents, Time Mashine fro my macs and so on. So buying a handheld computer like this would be a bargain for me. As for built in decisions like some kinds of NAT devices and different routers with external HDD features... They are either cost a lot or lack some kinds of desired functionality. So the goal is to make some kind http/api manageable server in my local network with Time Mashine and file storage/backup. Just for fun. And to have only laptop on my work table. SO back to the Pi. If you are buying "device only" configuration, like I did. First of all you'll need some different kind of things many computer fans usual...