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User guideDisk Utility

Creating a USB installer

Write an AbstractOS image to a USB drive with Disk Utility.

Disk Utility can write any .iso or .img file to a USB drive and verify it afterwards.

Disk Utility writing an image to a USB drive
  1. 1

    Insert a USB drive

    Use a drive of 8 GB or more. Everything on it will be erased.

  2. 2

    Choose the image

    Select Restore image and pick the downloaded AbstractOS image.

  3. 3

    Write and verify

    Select Write. Disk Utility checks the SHA-256 checksum when finished.

bash
sudo dd if=abstractos-0.1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync
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