ISO to USB on OSX
98 words, 1 minutes
This is how to burn the Ubuntu Remix image onto a USB stick.
# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS DellBook 465.4 Gi disk0s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *3.8 Gi disk2
1: Linux 196.1 Mi disk2s1
2: Linux 3.1 Gi disk2s2
3: Linux_Swap 509.9 Mi disk2s3
# diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
# cd /Users/jdoe/Desktop/
# dd if=ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
946+1 records in
946+1 records out
992837632 bytes transferred in 340.909154 secs (2912323 bytes/sec)