PFSense IMG To USB Stick

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How to write pfsense image .img to usb stick ( MAC )
tested on pfSense-memstick-2.1.3-RELEASE-amd64, pfSense-2.1.3-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd-vga--Snifer 17:05, 10 June 2014 (ICT)

1> Open Disk Utility and format usb stick to fat32.
2> Check diskmount point by open terminal.

df -h

3> Unmount disk by use disk utility.
4> Use dd to write pfsense img to usb stick

sh-3.2# dd if=pfSense-memstick-2.1.3-RELEASE-amd64.img of=/dev/disk2s1 bs=16k
14436+1 records in
14436+1 records out
236527616 bytes transferred in 66.304247 secs (3567307 bytes/sec)

5> Eject usb by use disk utility.