You can download the ISO file straight from Microsoft. In this tutorial we'll show you how you can set this up from a Mac. Luckily, Microsoft makes a tool that you can use to install Windows from a USB storage drive (or 'thumbdrive' as they are often called).īut what if you don't have a second PC for setting up that USB storage drive in the first place? So it can be a pain to install Windows on a new computer. If you have Homebrew or MacPorts, you can get a progress bar by installing the 'pv' command and using that instead of 'cat'.Most new PCs don't come with DVD drives anymore. No progress is shown while writing this way. You will be prompted for the administrator's password. r is for raw disk, as writing to /dev/rdisk2 is much faster than writing to /dev/disk2. dev/rdiskN is the same disk you have found previously, with an r in front. # sudo sh -c 'cat /path/to/downloaded.iso > /dev/rdiskN' Where /dev/diskN is the one you have found in previous step as per our example it would be '/dev/disk2'. In this case '/dev/disk2' is the one we want. Then note the corresponding /dev/diskN, where 'N' is for index of your disk. This will print out the list of currently mapped devices/partitions.

Plug-in your USB stick and find what '/dev/diskN' it is mapped to by opening Terminal (where 'N' stands for 'disk0', 'disk1', 'disk2' etc). It now contains a bootable openSUSE installation media. The process of burning can last from 1 to up to 30 minutes depending on your drive and on the iso file.

The drive can be reformatted and used as a normal drive again after the setup is finished. Warning: All data on the drive will be destroyed.

Mac burn iso to flash drive