Is it legal to create a bootable usb with mountain lion?

If the answer is yes, could you tell me what tool to use or give me the site with the tutorial? Thanks in advance!

Yes,
Use this app and you will need a copy of Mountain Lion installed on your Mac (of course)

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I am trying to create a bootable usb drive using diskutil and dd. I have had some success but not exactly what I wanted or expected. I am creating a bootable usb for MemTest86. I have an img file provided by PassMark. I first partitioned the drive using:
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output:
TYPE NAME
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   0:
GUID_partition_scheme
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disk3
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EFI EFI
209.7 MB
disk3s1
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disk3s2
This gives me what I would expect, the first partition is an EFI partition of size 209.7MB and the remaining 3.6GB, on a 4GB drive, being allocated to the second partition, /dev/disk3s2, MemTest86.
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I then run dd
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Now, the file does end up on the usb drive but..... The data is written to the first partition which used to be the EFI partition. It is now named Untitled and it is a FAT16 partition.
diskutil list /dev/disk3
output:
TYPE NAME
SIZE
IDENTIFIER
   0:
GUID_partition_scheme
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disk3
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Microsoft Basic Data
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disk3s1
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EFI
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disk3s2
Now, although, this isn't what I expected it does sort of work. When I boot the system into the Startup Manager there are 2 extra drives to boot from, both named "efi boot", all lower case. Both boot into the MemTest86 utility which is my goal but I first didn't expect the partition layout that I got and I can't figure out why I get 2 boot icons to select from. I am guessing that the format of the img file is causing the partition to be a FAT16 partition but I am waiting to hear back from PassMark regarding that.
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Hi all,
I'm new to bootcamp and I have the following problem:
When I'm creating a Windows 7 usb drive, it gives me an error "Cannot create your bootable usb stick there was a problem copying files".
I've tried searching google for the problem, but the only possible solutions I've got was to unmount the iso image and try again, but when I do that I still get the same error and when I check the disk utility I find the iso image is mounted again.
Does anyone haven an idea about what to do.
Specs:
OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch Mid 2014
2,6Ghz Core i%
8 GB 1600 MHz ddr3
Thanks in advance!

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