Creating a bootable USB drive on a Apple Mac OS X system

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You can use an Apple Mac OS X computer to create a bootable USB drive that you can use to install QRadar software.

Before you begin

You must have access to the following items:
  • An 8 GB or larger USB drive
  • A QRadar V7.3.1 or later ISO image file

About this task

When you create a bootable USB drive, the contents of the drive are deleted.

Procedure

  1. Download the QRadar ISO image file from Fix Central (www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/).
  2. Insert the USB drive into a USB port on your system.
  3. Open a terminal and type the following command to unmount the USB drive: 
    diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<name_of_the_connected_USB_flash_drive>
  4. Type the following command to write the QRadar ISO to your USB drive: 
    dd if=/<qradar>.iso of=/dev/ r <name_of_the_connected_USB_flash_drive> bs=1m
    Note: The r before the name of the connected USB drive is for raw mode, which makes the transfer much faster. There is no space between the r and the name of the connected USB drive.
  5. Remove the USB drive from your system.

What to do next

See Installing QRadar with a USB flash drive.