Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-22 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I haven't been following this tread, but dd is a command line tool to do bulk data copying that is often done at the raw partition level, so is useful for creating bootable images. the dd command is still available in Catalina, though I would expect you would need to make sure that terminal

RE: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-20 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Yeah that’s it, When you say older machine, It isn’t one with a dvd drive that you could write the iso to a dvd disk and then install that way. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of matthew dyer Sent: Saturday, 21 March 2020 6:42 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

RE: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-20 Thread matthew dyer
I have several. UBUNTU comes to mind. I also have Fedora 31. Would each distro be different in how it works. Thanks. Matthew -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Simon A Fogarty Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 3:22 AM To:

RE: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-20 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, Correct, the option you are referring to is called DD which is disk image mode. I am wanting to install fresh on an olderolder machine. This older machine has mo operating system at the moment. Thanks. I did come across “ß mac prog’rams which would do this, but none which are

Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Also, I believe that Macs with T2 chips by default will only boot Windows and MacOs. There is a way to turn off this integrity protection. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 20, 2020, at 3:30 AM, Simon A Fogarty wrote: > > I believe there is a function within linux itself

RE: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-20 Thread Simon A Fogarty
I believe there is a function within linux itself that will allow you to from the iso create a bootable installer on to a USB device. I did have one of these a few years back but it was created for me I didn’t do it myself. You can also in the same way install linux on to the USB Flash drive

RE: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-20 Thread Simon A Fogarty
What is the iso of If you tell us that it might help with a solution. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of matthew dyer Sent: Friday, 20 March 2020 2:23 AM To: 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries Subject: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in

Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-19 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, You are correct in that it will not be bootable when just copied over. Sorry, making a MacOS installer bootable works for me, but Linux is a different animal. I'm not sure how it can be done. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)

Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-19 Thread matthew dyer
Tim, I am wanting to make it bootable. Simply copy and pasting will not do this to my knowledge or am I wrong? For example, I have a linux distribution I wanna to install on another machine I would need to make it bootable in order to use it. HTH. Matthew > On Mar 19, 2020, at 10:06 AM,

Re: Writing .iso images to a usb thumb drive in cattleina is this possible?

2020-03-19 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, If you already have the ISO image file, just copy and paste it to the external media. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 19, 2020, at 07:23, matthew dyer wrote: Hi all, Hope someone can help me