How to Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive for Mac in OS X

hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Users/laomusicarts/Downloads/ubuntu.img.dmg /Us

ers/laomusicarts/Downloads/apps/ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
sudo dd if=/Users/laomusicarts/Downloads/ubuntu.img.dmg of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m
diskutil eject /dev/disk1
TERMINAL:
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Users/laomusicart
s/Downloads/ubuntu.img /Users/laomusicarts/Downloads/apps/ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop
-amd64.iso
2014-11-08 15:13:00.870 hdiutil[61980:903] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskI
mages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin:
dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Mac
OS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma
cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2014-11-08 15:13:00.871 hdiutil[61980:903] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskI
magePluginFactory for factory 7F1FD83E-6684-11D8-968F-000A957703C0 in CFBundle/C
FPlugIn 0x1044139c0 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundl
e> (bundle, not loaded)
2014-11-08 15:13:00.874 hdiutil[61980:903] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskI
mages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin:
dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Mac
OS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma
cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2014-11-08 15:13:00.875 hdiutil[61980:903] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskI
magePluginFactory for factory 7F1FD83E-6684-11D8-968F-000A957703C0 in CFBundle/C
FPlugIn 0x1044139c0 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundl
e> (bundle, not loaded)
2014-11-08 15:13:00.876 hdiutil[61980:903] Error loading /Library/Plug-ins/DiskI
mages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin:
dlopen(/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Mac
OS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Contents/Ma
cOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2014-11-08 15:13:00.876 hdiutil[61980:903] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskI
magePluginFactory for factory 7F1FD83E-6684-11D8-968F-000A957703C0 in CFBundle/C
FPlugIn 0x1044139c0 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundl
e> (bundle, not loaded)
Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)
Reading Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS amd64
(Apple_ISO : 1)
Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)
Reading Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS amd64
(Apple_ISO : 3)
................................................................................
...............
Reading EFI (Apple_HFS : 4)
................................................................................
...............
Reading Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS amd64
(Apple_ISO : 5)
................................................................................
...................
Elapsed Time: 14.837s

Speed: 66.1Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/laomusicarts/Downloads/ubuntu.img.dmg
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#:
TYPE NAME
SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0:
GUID_partition_scheme
*750.2 GB disk0
1:
EFI
209.7 MB disk0s1
2:
Apple_HFS Macintosh HD
749.8 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#:
TYPE NAME
SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0:
GUID_partition_scheme
*2.1 GB
disk1
1:
Apple_HFS UbuntuMac
1.9 GB
disk1s1
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#:
TYPE NAME
SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0:
GUID_partition_scheme
*750.2 GB disk0
1:
EFI
209.7 MB disk0s1
2:
Apple_HFS Macintosh HD
749.8 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#:
TYPE NAME
SIZE
IDENTIFIER
0:
GUID_partition_scheme
*2.1 GB
disk1
1:
Apple_HFS UbuntuMac
1.9 GB
disk1s1
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$ sudo dd if=/Users/laomusicarts/Downloads/ubuntu.im
g.dmg of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m
Password:
981+0 records in
981+0 records out
1028653056 bytes transferred in 179.719252 secs (5723666 bytes/sec)
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$ diskutil eject /dev/disk1
Disk /dev/disk1 ejected
laomusics-mbp:~ laomusicarts$