Found this useful when trying to install Moblin on my Dell Mini 9. Nowadays there’s no need to burn a CD every time you want to install something. I started with Disk Utility but kept getting errors. dd to the rescue!
Steps:
1) Partition your USB stick and choose MBR partition scheme.
2) Unmount the volume on the stick.
3) In Terminal, dd if=diskimage.iso of=/dev/diskX bs=1024
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This only seems to work for booting non-Macs.. I can’t get the Darwin bootloader to recognize USB sticks created this way. It did work on the Mini 9 though.