I still call it 'burning' for a flash drive. It has just been moved to a menu in 10.11. The feature you want is called 'restore' it has always been called restore in Disk Utility on OS X. iso written by Disk Utility - in fact some won't even write via Disk Utility. iso, however I have not always been able to boot from an. iso files, some really need to be burned to CD/ DVD to boot a computer.ĭid you read all of my post and follow the link?Ī disk image is effectively the same as an. iso, I have had mixed success with certain. The Raspberry Pi foundation has a reasonable explanation on that topic, replace the sdcard with your USB disk.ĭisk Utility can still restore volumes on 10.11…ĭisk Utility (El Capitan): Restore a disk image to a disk
You can use 'dd' to write the image in Terminal.
You would need to manually create the correct file system for it to work before copying. iso files contain the filesystem structure which is lost if you simply copy via the Finder, it breaks booting & features that require that partition structure. iso is - if it is for making a bootable OS from Linux or similar Barney-15E's suggestion will fail to work. Good point Barney-15E, I read 'USB drive' & assumed Bebias was talking about a USB external optical drive, it probably isn't the case.īebias, please tell us what the purpose of the. Then copy the files from it onto the USB stick. Burning is for optical media.ĭouble-click the. You don't 'burn' a USB drive, you copy files onto it.
