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When booting the Mac now press alt and there should be an option to boot to that is called EFI boot. This will bring up GParted Live.

When booting the Mac now press alt or option and there should be an option to boot to that is called EFI boot. This will bring up GParted Live.

• Copy the downloaded file with sudo dd BS=1m if=file.iso of=/dev/rdiskX

We use the r for raw in of=/dev/rdiskX to make the copy faster.

• Copy the downloaded file with sudo dd bs=1m if=file.iso of=/dev/rdiskX

We use the r for raw in of=/dev/rdiskX to make the copy faster. You should not be using the s1 extensions: these are partitions on the disk, not the disk itself.

• Download .iso from here under "stable releases". If unsure, chose the 32bit-Version.

• Put a USB stick in the slot and look into disk utility for its device number (disk1, disk2, diskX, etc). This can be found by clicking the icon "Info".

• Open up a `terminal``

• Unmount the stick in terminal (nowhere else) with sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX

Make sure you dont dd to a wrong disk, e.g. your working HDD!

• Copy the dowloaded file with sudo dd BS=1m if=file.iso of=/dev/rdiskX

We use the r for raw in of=/dev/rdiskX to make the copy faster.

sudo gdisk -l /dev/diskX will show this (aborting the question is possible with ctrl&c):

OS X will show a dialog to initialise, ignore or unmount the USB stick when it is put into the slot. Clicking Ignore is safe. I put the german screenshot in, I think it's pretty clear.

When booting the Mac now press alt and there should be an option to boot to that is called EFI boot. This will bring up Gparted Live.

• Download .iso from here under "stable releases". If unsure, chose the 32bit-Version.

• Put a USB stick in the slot and look into Disk Utility for its device number (disk1, disk2, diskX, etc). This can be found by clicking the icon "Info".

• Open up a shell

• Unmount the stick in terminal (nowhere else) with sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX

Make sure you don't dd to a wrong disk, e.g. your working HDD!

• Copy the downloaded file with sudo dd BS=1m if=file.iso of=/dev/rdiskX

We use the r for raw in of=/dev/rdiskX to make the copy faster.

sudo gdisk -l /dev/diskX will show this (aborting the question is possible with ctrlC):

OS X will show a dialog to Initialise..., Ignore or Unmount the USB stick when it is put into the slot. Clicking Ignore is safe. I put the German screenshot in, I think it's pretty clear.

When booting the Mac now press alt and there should be an option to boot to that is called EFI boot. This will bring up GParted Live.