ok, run the pure dyne Live CD (the matter was that the CD on my mac
was broken the last 6 months and I treid to do it directly to USB, but
now I have a Mac (macBookpro late 08, 2.8 Ghz, 4g ram, etc) with it,
so I can boot it from CD with no problem at all. But I dont get into
internet. cant make the conection,. well, I have something to fin
out....
gn8 4 now
Andres
On 13.09.2009, at 18:50, Ricardo . wrote:
Hi Andres!
Ok, I understand the problem =) I think you should be able to
do the whole process using puredyne's own liveCD/DVD. You didn't
answer if you were able to boot into it in your macbook, could you?
puredyne will only run on macbooks with intel processor, I hope
that's yours. AFAIK, one must simply hold the option button at
startup and a Windows Option will appear, dummerweise that's the one.
So, first about partitioning the drive. GUI stands for
Graphical User Interface, it's the user-friendly method. You need
the app gparted for that. It's not pre-installed on the puredyne
liveCD. You could do that with something like an Ubuntu LiveCD, but
you can as well install it running your puredyne liveCD. You need
the command-line for that, thought. Open a terminal, do 'apt-get
update ' (without quotes) and after that 'apt-get install gparted'.
Just confirm and it will download the programm and install it
(internet must be working). Now plug-in your usb-drive and you can
proceed following the instructions on the website, just run gparted
from the command-line. On linux, all devices are listed in the /dev
directory. Here, for example, my usb-drive is represented as /dev/
sdc1 (in some systems it could show up as /dev/hdc1 instead), where
sd stands for drives (SCSI/SATA), c means it's the third drive
available (I also have two hard-disks, the first sda, the second
sdb) and '1' is the partition number. You need to select the correct
drive inside gparted (if you only have one hard-disk, the pen-drive
is called probably /deb/sdb). The drive's size will be a good hint
about the correct device.
Ok, after partitioning let's go to the last step. I'd choose
the syslinux method, since you have neither windows nor linux
installed (I don't think there's a version for unetbootin for OSX,
and anyway I have never used this method). The commands are quite
different then those listed at the website, cause you will be
copying the files from your already running liveCD. I've never done
it this way, but it should work. Just copy and paste following
commands on a terminal, one at a time (so you don't leave out, for
example, the last dot on the ninth command (mv isolinux/* . ). Oh
yes, and where it says /dev/sdb replace with you device name, but it
will probably be /dev/sdb anyway.
cd ~
sudo /sbin/lilo -M /dev/sdb
mkdir usb
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 usb
sudo cp -rv /live/image/* usb
cd usb
mv isolinux/* .
sudo rm -rf isolinux/
sudo sed -i 's/\/isolinux//g' *.cfg
sudo sed -i 's/\/isolinux//g' *.txt
sudo mv isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg
sudo mv isolinux.bin syslinux.bin
cd ..
sudo umount usb
syslinux /dev/sdb1
rm -rf iso usb
Fertig! I know, it seems complicated for those who have never
used command-line, but the next pure:dyne version will come with
tools that will automate the process, as far as I have understood. I
always advise people interested in computers to learn command-line,
that's useful in all systems. Like mentioned earlier, the commands
for osx and linux are ver similar, than both are UNIX derivates.
Please ask if you have any problems. Anyway, I think you
should insist on this linux thing, it's really important to spread
free software between students, artists and such. I'm doing the same
here in Brazil and have been quite succeful, in a long term it will
make a big change on the technology and knowledge democratizing in
those countries.
Ricardo
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