This is far from elegant but here is what I'm doing. I used a windows machine to make a USB Stick. I used dd in a terminal to make an image of it. Compress the image Rename it .Z Open up DiskUtility now I'm ready to burn. Put in a fresh USB stick. Use "Information" in Disk Utility to find the disk number. UnMount the disk (don't eject! use unmount in Disk Utility) Open a new window in Terminal. (Command T) sudo zcat ./SoaS2-Beta-4-8.img.Z > /dev/disk1 (change disk number for each disk) Repeat with the next USB until both hubs are full. Its not returning in the terminal when its done. After a while (about 30 min or so) they all stop flashing. I can't eject them. I just pull the plug on the port and let the mac complain at me. I spot check a few to see if the boot starts. So far I have 4 USBs that seem to be bad and even with repeated tries give me "boot error". Reboot the mac, an hour after I've finished system is still using 90% of the CPU. Certainly in now way teacher ready but seems to be working. The real test will be tomorrow. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Caroline - can you tell me how you are burning SoaS on your Mac? thanks Sean <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > We have a beta release and I have a way to burn multiple USBs on my mac. > When it boots it works pretty well! It even connects to a Jabber server for > collaboration. People who get it to boot will be impressed. > > The bad news is the current beta release is not working at all with the > "Boot Helper" CD > > The error is Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good > luck! > > bash: no job control in this shell. > > This is a shame because giving people a CD is much easier then walking them > through changing their BIOS. Also at the wild (as evidenced by the YMCA and > the Gardner School) many computers (about 50% of the Y and the entire > computer lab at the Gardner) can't be made to boot from a USB. With luck > the laptops people will be carrying at the conference will be newer and boot > from USBs. > > So I'm debating whether I burn both SoaS1 and SoaS2 so we have something for > people who need to use a CD? Any hope of getting the boot helper fixed? > > The other thing that would be really excellent for Friday would be a working > Virtual Box install. If we got one working we could burn it onto a couple > of sticks and just pass it around to the Mac users. > > The final thing on my wish list is a way to show off eBooks. > > Great work and thanks to all who have worked so hard. We have made > tremendous progress! > > Cheers, > Caroline > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > </div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax