Creating bootable USB from “Install OS X El Capitan.iso” [duplicate]

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  •  26-05-2021
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Question

I have "Install OS X El Capitan.iso" file. I have burned the image to a DVD and successfully installed El Capitan in the past. Now that my DVD drive is broken, I would like to create a bootable USB Drive out of it. Can this be achieved? If yes, I'd like to know how.

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Solution

All I did was wrote the image to USB Drive with dd command from the terminal and it booted like a charm. The command I used was:

$ diskutil list
$ cd /path/to/Install_OS_X_10.11_El_Capitan.iso
$ sudo dd if=Install_OS_X_10.11_El_Capitan.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

Replace disk2 with the appropriate drive listed in the output of the first command. For example, disk3 or disk4.

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