create mac disk image from iso on windows

It’s commonly known as ‘Formatting’, but those Cupertino Cliques like to call it ‘Initialise’ instead 🙂 Regardless of whether you have a blank USB stick, or one with lots of files, you are going to need to completely erase the contents of it. It’s time to pop your USB stick in your Mac. If you are downloading Ubuntu, you can get it here: Step 2: Erase / Format / Initialise your USB Stick This may seem obvious – but just in case you haven’t already downloaded your Linux distro, make sure you grab the right one for your machine (if it’s a new Mac, it’s going to be the 64-bit ISO image – the filename usually ends amd64.iso. If you want a full tutorial on how to install Linux on a Mac computer, check out our guide. However, this is 2016, and people don’t have CDRW drives any more, so let’s find out how to do this on your beloved mac. USB sticks were more meant to pop regular files onto, not disk images. They weren’t really intended to be put onto USB sticks. In the past, we’d ‘burn’ this image onto a blank CD or DVD. So, just to be clear, you have downloaded Linux (say Ubuntu) from the Ubuntu website. Unfortunately, Mac users have to go through a few more hurdles to get an ISO image onto a USB stick in order to make it boot properly. If you’ve used tools like UNetBootin before, then you’ll have found it a nice easy graphical way on a PC.