Writing image to SD card These are the steps to write an raspberry pi OS image to an SD card on MacOS 1. Insert card on reader Identify the disk number diskutil list 2. Unmount the disk unmountDisk /dev/disk2 3. Write the image sudo dd bs=1m if=hassos_rpi3-2.12.img of=/dev/rdisk2 conv=sync 4. Eject card sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdisk2 Done!   https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md