Same thing. image-writer-mac is nothing but a wrapper around dd preventing accidental writes to a non-USB drive.
- Bert - On 24.11.2011, at 18:56, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > Do it from Terminal. Not image-writer-mac ! > > This is a 1 GB USB that was imaged with dd. > > Cordially > > Tom Gilliard > ===Write to a 1 GB USB device=== > sudo su > Password > dd if=SoaS-15-1-EFI.img of=/dev/sd(x) bs=2M > 489+1 records in > 489+1 records out > 1026555904 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 216.577 s, 4.7 MB/s > > On 11/24/2011 08:14 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 23.11.2011, at 06:45, Thomas Gilliard wrote: >> >>> Caryl; >>> >>> I know it requires using the terminal, but these 2 Soas-v5-Coconut .img >>> files may be the easiest way to build a number of booting SoaS USB sticks >>> for your presentation. >>> The instructions (actual screen shots of terminal of the writing to the >>> USB's are included in these pages) >>> >>> The command in terminal can be repeated for each new USB that is inserted >>> Note that the EFI 1 GB USB is written in less than 4 minutes. >>> >>> 1-) PC >>> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_2GB_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img >>> >>> 2-) Macbook EFI Boot: >>> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_1_GB_EFI_Boot_.28MAC.29_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img >>> >>> Just be sure to enter "mount" in terminal to see the device name for your >>> USB ie: /dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; /dev/sdc...... It is VERY IMPORTANT to have >>> this set correctly. >>> >>> Cordailly; >>> >>> Tom Gilliard >>> satellit_ on #sugar IRC >> >> I tried the Mac EFI one. Used the image-writer-mac (*) script to dd it onto >> the stick. >> >> It booted my MacBook Pro, I saw the 10 second Fedora pre-boot count down, >> but after that I just got a blank screen. >> >> - Bert - >> >> (*) I have a minor update at >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/image-writer >> Could someone with SoaS write permissions replace this on the release server? >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/ >> Thanks! >> >> [converting this into an AppleScript would be the simplest to avoid having >> to use the Terminal] >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
