How to burn (write) an ISO image to USB drive in all new Mac OS X systems

There are many programs in the market that can handle it for you. But you can do it with default Mac OS X tools. Those steps must be made in terminal. You need to know what you are doing and have root password to your system.
Here is your step by step guide to do it:

1. Convert your image.

You need to change the image type from .iso to .img that dd util supports. To do this type a command like this:

hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /path/to/destination/file.img /path/to/source/file.iso

You must see output similar to this:

Reading Image File Name Here  (Apple_UDF : 0)…... [ truncated ] .............................
Elapsed Time:  4m 57.725s
Speed: 20.9Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /path/to/image/file.img.dmg

2. Remove the .dmg extension.

mv /path/to/image/file.img.dmg /path/to/image/file.img

3. Get your flash drive device name.

You can do it in various ways. one that is using standard utils here:

diskutil list

This will list all your disks mounted to your mac. Output should be similar to this:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS Vault                   750.2 GB   disk0s1
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS HD               127.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED                16.0 GB    disk3s1

So in my case flash drive is named disk3. Note it is not disk3s1, that indicates a partition name not a drive name.

4. Unmount your flash drive.

Note you need to unmount, not eject this flash drive. Command may be like so:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3

Change that disk3 to your device id.

4. Write your image to flash drive.

To handle this you would use a dd utility. Note param bs=1m, indicating block size to write. Missing this parameter would force dd to run byte by byte copy, resulting run for ages with several gigs of data.

sudo dd if=/path/to/image/file.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m

Note to change that disk3 to your flash drive id.
You may use rdisk instead of dd to add some speed to this. But this particular run was ok for me.
You may see an output like this, resulting you may eject and use your flash drive farther.

$ sudo dd if=/path/to/image/file.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m
Password:
6207+1 records in
6207+1 records out
6509363200 bytes transferred in 1124.570118 secs (5788312 bytes/sec)

Hope this help somebody someday. Cheers.
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