[SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:55:34AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another
> question.  If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the
> image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G.
> posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that?  I have
> copies of that download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD.

Skipping it might not be worth the effort, since it is only a few
kilobytes, and by downloading it again you'll get it placed in the
folder that the instructions expect ... the folder called Downloads.

However, to answer your question ... you would copy it to your Downloads
directory, either by dragging it across between two Finder windows (one
opened on the DVD, one opened on Downloads), or by figuring out the
filesystem paths for each and typing a Terminal command similar to this:

	cp /Volumes/SugarDVD/image-writer-mac.py ~/Downloads/

(Since I don't have a copy of this DVD, and the method used to create it
is manual and not automatically scripted, I can't determine what the
filesystem path after the "cp" would be.)  This command does the same as
dragging the file between two Finder windows, but is more exact and
reproducible.  The end result should be that file image-writer-mac.py is
in the Downloads folder.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/