[SoaS] [IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac) dd writable USB.img files

[Bert Freudenberg]

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]
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