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Creating a SmarOS bootable USB from Mac
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Reference

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Creating+a+SmartOS+Bootable+USB+Key

Download SmartOS

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Download+SmartOS

Use ethcher or dd.

1. Use Etcher

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

2. Use dd

List disks

diskutil list

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk2
   1:                       0x17                         2.9 GB     disk2s1
   2:                 DOS_FAT_12 NO NAME                 720.9 KB   disk2s2

Unmount USB and dd image

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gunzip smartos-latest-USB.img.gz 
sudo dd bs=1m if=smartos-latest-USB.img of=/dev/disk2

Eject USB

diskutil eject /dev/disk2
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