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A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.
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Impossible to create boot media from macOS #1862

Open federicochiesa opened 2 months ago

federicochiesa commented 2 months ago

I was trying to make a bootable USB on a macOS to use it on an Intel N100 box but it's impossible: if you download the .iso version and decompress it for some reason macOS decompresses it to a folder and not an .iso file, and the .img.xz file decompresses to a huge 22GB image that balenaEtcher apparently doesn't support, as it gives an error saying "The writer process ended unexpectedly." I also tried giving BalenaEtcher the .img.xz file but I get the same error.

I ended up installing Windows on the N100 box just to be able to flash the USB.

Is there any way to make the process compatible with macOS?

jonathanchagas commented 1 month ago

Don't decompress… Just flash the iso file on balenaEtcher.