as i mentioned, usb doesn't work on macs, the pure:dyne live cd probably not either. you might have more luck with the dvd apparently. also for the command line stuff, try some of the unix tutorials online, it's very handy to know on mac too and basic commands are the same and very easy.
Andres Leon-Geyer wrote: > 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 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #puredyne --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #puredyne
