- Attach your USB Flash Drive to your Mac. For your reference, my USB Flash Drive is labelled “SanDisk Cruzer Slice Media” and I’ve named its existing partition “FLASH DRIVE”.
1. From your Applications folder and open the Utilities folder.
2. From within Utilities you’ll see the Disk Utility application. Open it.
3. Disk Utility should now be open and you’ll see two main display panes. The left pane displays a list of all the drives on your system: Internal, External and Optical. From this left plane, you can see my Flash Drive labelled “16.03 GB SanDisk Cruzer Slice Media” and it’s partition “FLASH DRIVE” directly beneath it. Unless you are using the identical flash drive to me, both these labels will be shown differently on your screen.
4. Now look to the right pane for the option “Restore” and select it.
5. Next from within that Restore pane, you should see an option labelled “Source:” with an input box and a button labelled “Image…”
6. Click the “Image…” button, navigate to the folder containing your DMG file, select your DMG file and then click the “Open” button. This will return you to Disk Utility where you should see something similar to the following image:
7. The next step is to drag your chosen USB Flash Drive partition to the Destination input folder. You do that by holding left click over the partition name (in my case FLASH DRIVE) and simply dragging it across to the Destination input folder; releasing the left click to complete the drop. Check the “Erase Destination” button as it’s necessary to make the drive bootable.
8. You are now ready to create your bootable USB Drive installer. You do this by looking towards the bottom of the Disk Utility application for the button labelled “Restore”. Click it.
9. Apple will now display a warning prompt. It will ask you to confirm you have definitely selected the correct USB Flash Drive partition, and ask you to confirm you want to erase it. If you have any doubts click Cancel and leave. If you are 100% sure you have selected the correct USB Flash Drive partition, and that you want to erase all the data on that partition, you click “Erase” to start creating your USB Drive boot installer.
10. Okay one final thing, you will now be prompted for your Mac OS X account password. Once you validate your password, Disk Utility starts creating your bootable USB Flash Drive.
Congratulations! You have now created a bootable Mac OS X USB Drive installer from a DMG image. To make use of it, simply reboot your system and hold “alt”. Select your USB Flash Drive from the boot options screen and away you go. Have fun!
Thanks to http://blogchampion.com/2011/03/12/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-drive-installer-from-a-dmg-package-in-mac-os-x/
