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jtapp92
January 20th, 2018, 11:04 PM
hey all, I've just found one of my old laptops with no os on it. i have a working MacBook and want to put linux on the pc. I have the .ios file for ubuntu but I'm not sure how to put it on an sd card and make it bootable. tried unetbootin and it didn't recognize my card.

TheFu
January 21st, 2018, 04:07 AM
If ".ios" is really ".iso", the you can use dd on the Mac to copy bit-for-bit the ISO file onto an SDHC or Flash drive. That should boot from almost any Windows machine. There are lots of how-tos for using 'dd' on a Mac.