Creating a CentOS USB drive on Mac OS X

  1. Download .iso, either netinstall or LiveCD.
  2. get mounted disk by inserting drive and running diskutil list
  3. unmont disk by running diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk3
  4. write image by running: dd if=~/Downloads/centos\ 5.4/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m
  5. run diskutil eject /dev/disk3
  6. try it!

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