[IAEP] Mirabelle for Macs

[Sean McGrath]

Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> 
> Your friendly Mac-person here...
> 
> 
> I am on this page:
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> http://mirrors.mit.edu/sugarlabs/soas/docs/creation-kit/sect-Creation_Kit-Preparation-Mac_Instructions.html
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> I have started the SoaS image download.
> 
> 
> When I clicked on the second link for the image-writer-mac tool, the 
> download was almost instantaneous. It gave me a text file that is 
> supposed to be "image-writer-mac."  It does not appear to be an 
> executable program file.  Do I cut-and-paste it into terminal or what?  

Just follow the instructions.
The "cd Downloads; python image-writer-mac soas-3-mirabelle.iso"
command line will use the python to execute the image-writer-mac file,
which will write the .iso file to your target.

> 
> Also, you don't mention the Boot helper disk which works fine when using 
> Strawberry and Blueberry on a Mac.  Does Mirabelle not work with the 
> Boot helper?
> 
> 
> I haven't started on 88.1 yet. I want to get Mirabelle working first.
> 
> 
> I really would like to see all of this become very Mac friendly since a 
> large (maybe 50+) percentage of educational users have Macs.
> 
> 
> Chao!
> 
> Caryl 
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