Create a bootable USB stick on macOS

Tutorials
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There is no reason whatsoever to install Etcher, or any unsigned app, or indeed anything at all - I’ve just confirmed that the inbuilt “dd” command works perfectly fine to boot Ubuntu on my mac:-

    sudo dd if=ubuntu-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=8225280

Someone needs to update these old instructions ASAP, so that you’re not forcing all your users to do sketchy unsafe things and run insecure products…

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We should advice people to use a 4GB thumb drive not 2 GB

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Etcher is only available for x86-64. Seems like arm64 is not a supported architecture.

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Even a 4GB USB Drive doesn’t seem to be big enough. Should advise for an 8GB drive.

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I have a Mac Ventura and it didn’t work for me either. I followed the instructions to a T. Was formating the USB instructions done correctly? I restarted my computer holding the option button - the USB never turned yellow nor showed.

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Did you use Etcher to flash the USB?
https://etcher.balena.io/
Their is one for macos

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Yes, the latest LTS version of Ubuntu Desktop (at this time Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS) requires more than 4 GB. The ISO file for Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS is 4,93 GB

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Wanted to say thanks to the original writer for this document. Just used it to create a bootable USB on a Mac Mini m2 and it worked flawlessly for me. Thank you!

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