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steamos-community / stephensons-rocket

Stephenson's Rocket - a modified SteamOS installer, with support for older and virtualized computers
http://stephensonsrocket.horse
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Wrong MAC install intructions (fix provided) #112

Open T0mu opened 9 years ago

T0mu commented 9 years ago

Instructions "instruct" to: Installing from USB (Mac) Open a Terminal window from the Utilities section of Applications.

Type "diskutil list" to get a list of devices - one of them will be your USB stick (e.g. /dev/disk2). Follow the Linux instructions below, with this /dev/rdiskX entry instead of /dev/sdX (please note the added "r"!)

but, instead of following linux instructions you have to: run "diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX" to unmount any partition on the USB disk then run "sudo dd bs=1m if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/rdiskX" notice the r before diskX and the 1m instead of 1M in the bs switch (apple doesn't use GNU dd)

you won't have nether "illegal numeric value" nor "resource is busy" error!

sharkwouter commented 8 years ago

Any chance you could make a pull request with the change to the README.md?

T0mu commented 8 years ago

Yes, I'll do it... I just learned today what a "pull" is...

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