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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:32:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d75a7b21-75c1-ee44-5d35-71129cfeea51@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2002011806001.10332@panix1.panix.com>

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember instructions to do just that to 
create a bootable source for installing a distribution. Do you know 
where I can read about this subject?  Thanks!


Al


On 2/1/20 6:07 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> dd is not a good command for burning usb sticks and this is probably why
> you had a failure.
>
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:01:42
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
>> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks
>>
>> I suspect I am about to learn something so here's the deal:
>>
>> 	I downloaded the iso image and used dd to pour it in to a
>> thumb drive
>>
>> dd if=imagefile of=/dev/sdd in this case and away it went.
>>
>> 	Several minutes later, the roughly 1-gig file ended up on
>> the thumb drive.
>>
>> 	The mac is old enough not to have the T2 chip so if the
>> drive is bootable, it should boot which it does not.
>>
>> 	If you plug the drive in, a message pops up stating that
>> it is unreadable on this computer
>>
>> 	How do I get the Mac to boot off of that drive?
>>
>> Martin McCormick
>>
>>
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