By Manny Fernandez

January 11, 2020

Workaround for Running Unetbootin for macOS on Catalina

Workaround for Running Unetbootin for macOS on Catalina

OK, so here we are again with the “Making a bootable disk in Mac” again.  I was able to find a workaround for unetbootin on macOS Catalina.  Lets get started.

You will need the Finder and the terminal (Terminal, iTerm2, SecureCRT, etc.)

Fist lets open the terminal window

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Once you launch the terminal, type sudo and a space.

Now we will open the Applications folder in Finder and find unetbootin

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Now lets right-click on unetbootin and choose Show Package Contents (see below)

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Choose Contents then MacOS and then drag the unetbootin file onto the terminal screen next to the sudo .

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Once you hit enter it will ask you to enter your password you should be good to create bootable USB images now.

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I created an executable script to launch it moving forward until they release a supported version.

#!/bin/bash
sudo /Applications/unetbootin.app/Contents/MacOS/unetbootin

if you want to make it executable you will need to

chmod +x %name-of-the-file%.sh

Hope this helps

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