Of course your partitions won't look as cool as mine, unless you've ripped out your optical drive and shoved in a second harddrive.

Assuming your USB drive is plugged in (hint hint), you will be greeted with a list of drives similar to this: /dev/disk0ģ: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3ģ: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3ġ: Windows_FAT_32 BFPORTABLE2 8.0 GB disk2s1 Open up terminal, and run the command diskutil list. Luckily for us, this is a BSD machine, and the terminal has some useful commands for us. (Invalid argument)īasically, it means that Disk Utility has no idea what the hell it is doing. Chances are, if you're reading this, you've already tried to burn an ISO image to a USB drive using the utility and were greeted with a cryptic error like this: Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work for burning ISO images to USB drives.

OS X comes with a pretty handy tool for working with disks and burning disk images called Disk Utility. 2 min read Multithreaded JavaScript, O'Reilly 2021, has been published!

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