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Booting from the installer drive. You can now boot any Mountain Lion-compatible Mac from this drive: Just connect the drive to your Mac and either (if your Mac is already booted into OS X) choose. How to Create a Bootable Hackintosh Installation USB Drive. The first step in installing macOS on a PC and creating your own Hackintosh is to create a bootable USB with macOS on it. This requires a working Mac that has access to the Mac App Store, a USB thumb drive, and some time. It isn't difficult, but it is a little time consuming, and it's.

The FreePBX Distro SNG7 .iso can be copied to a USB Key for easy install. You can download the xxx.iso image to your local computer from http://www.freepbx.org/downloads. Once downloaded, you will need to use the dd command (disk cloning) to transfer the file onto your USB drive. Follow the steps below for Windows or Mac/Linux.

Windows

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Insert a USB thumb drive and select its drive letter (in this example, drive E). Click the Write button. The image will be written to the USB thumb drive. Once completed, you should see a message like this: NOTE: If the burned image fails to boot, wipe the USB stick before trying a second burn using a utility such as Active@ KillDisk. Select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled),” or your preferred format type. The former option can help ensure that the USB drive is made fully compatible with your Mac, since most USB drives are preformatted for Windows computers by default. 'SSD VS HDD, I want to use SSD as my boot drive since it has a better performance. MiniTool ShadowMaker can easily transfer my HDD to SSD without reinstalling OS.' In addition, if you only want to migrate Windows OS from HDD to SSD, you can ask another hard drive cloning software, MiniTool Partition Wizard, for help.

Windows users will need to download a utility that can create a USB-bootable image from the .iso file. The recommended tool is Win32DiskImager.

After you have downloaded and installed Win32DiskImager, use the browse button to navigate to the location of the .iso file. Insert a USB thumb drive and select its drive letter (in this example, drive E). Click the Write button. The image will be written to the USB thumb drive.


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Once completed, you should see a message like this:


NOTE: If the burned image fails to boot, wipe the USB stick before trying a second burn using a utility such as Active@ KillDisk. Otherwise, the second burn attempt will fail since Windows does not understand the GPT partition that was written from the image file. Be very careful that you specify the USB stick when using a wipe utility!

Mac or Linux

First you need to find the USB drive on your local Mac computer with the following command:

Drive

It should return something like what is shown below. In our example we can see the USB device is mounted as a DOS_FAT_32 under /dev/disk1

Now, unmount the disk using the command below. Remember to replace the disk number with the id of your USB stick.

You should see something like this:

Use the dd command to write. Again, be sure to replace the disk number with the id of your USB stick.Replace if=Desktop/SNG7-FPBX-64bit-1706-1.isowith the path to your ISO image. This step may take 10-15 minutes to complete.


When complete, you should see a confirmation like the one below:


In the terminal window performing the dd on Mac or Linux you can type 'ctrl-t' (or ^t) to see how far the dd command is though the copy.

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Now you can go boot your PBX from the USB image and go through the normal ISO installer process, skipping steps 1-3 and starting with step 4 where it asks you which version of Asterisk you would like to install.