Make a bootable USB from ISO on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 without any extra apps

Plugin the USB, then:

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Then

mf$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o BT5R2-GNOME-64.img BT5R2-GNOME-64.iso
mf$ diskutil list /dev/disk2 #(careful here)
mf$ dd if=./BT5R2-GNOME-64.img.dmg of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m

 

Note: that bs=1m (without it the speed is going to be less than 1mb/sec, with it it's 10mb/sec)

Note2: we're using rdisk2 instead of disk2, again this way it's faster.

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