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hrnick
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:11 am    Post subject: Create USB boot disk in OSX Reply with quote
Hi!

I'm in need of a USB boot disk for my netbook that doesn't boot. The only other computer I have available right now is a MacBook and I've found this guide and looked at the diskutil method. Does this work for the gentoo minimal images as well or is there something I else I have to concider? I want to give it a try as soon as I get administrative rights to run dd on the MacBook.

Any help appreciated!
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khayyam
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
hrnick ...

OSX comes with 'dd' so it should be fairly staightforward ...

Code:
sudo dd if=install-x86-minimal-20120626.iso of=/dev/diskX bs=1M

.. where "diskX" is the USB stick.

Possibly a better option of bootdisk is sysrescuecd which is based on gentoo but comes with various tools (such as ddrescue, partimage, etc) and has good support for netbooks.

HTH & best ...

khay
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for your reply! I'll give it a try!
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