Creating a Bootable USB Drive From an ISO on a Mac

  Macintosh

First you need to convert your ISO file to the proper file type for your Mac. I am using a Windows 2016 ISO image for my example.

$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o winserv2016.img winsrv2016.iso
Reading SSS_X64FREV_EN-US_DV9            (Apple_UDF : 0)…
...............................................................................
Elapsed Time:  2m  0.583s
Speed: 45.0Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Volumes/HD2/vmware/winserv2016.img.dmg

Insert your usb stick

Run the following command.

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.7 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.7 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 96.0 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 44.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 512.4 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *480.1 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 479.8 GB disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +479.8 GB disk3
Physical Store disk2s2
1: APFS Volume HD2 297.6 GB disk3s1

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *30.8 GB disk4
1: DOS_FAT_32 SANDISK 30.8 GB disk4s1

With the following command unmount your USB drive you located previously. disk4 is my USB stick.

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
Unmount of all volumes on disk4 was successful

Run the following command to create a Mac image or .dmg file of the ISO file.

$ sudo dd if=winserv2016.img.dmg of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m
5430+1 records in
5430+1 records out
5694334976 bytes transferred in 5044.856066 secs (1128741 bytes/sec)

And now you will have a bootable USB stick.

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