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Create LinuxMint bootable USB
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Creating a bootable USB stick with LinuxMint 14 (works on both Debian and Ubuntu versions)

For OSX

hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o linuxmint-14.1-mate-dvd-64bit.img linuxmint-14.1-mate-dvd-64bit.iso

remove auto-appended .dmg file extension

mv linuxmint-14.1-mate-dvd-64bit.img.dmg linuxmint-14.1-mate-dvd-64bit.img

diskutil list
  ``note the device name for the usb drive``
diskutil unmount /dev/disk1

sudo dd if=linuxmint-14.1-mate-dvd-64bit.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m

diskutil eject /dev/disk1

Finshed, restart and run

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