How to Create an OSE Linux USB using Mac Guide by Alex Au 2018
Here are the actual commands I used to load OSE linux onto a flash drive. Comments included as `* This is a comment`
Successful Attempt
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- Find the name of the flash drive
diskutil list
- Unmount the flash drive by its name, in this case, /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
- Erase the flash drive with the command line
- Set it up as FAT32, a microsoft format compatible w/ linux
- Rename the disk as OSE in all caps to avoid a name error
diskutil erasedisk FAT32 OSE /dev/disk2
- Install rEFInd: instructions from https://www.lifewire.com/dual-boot-linux-and-mac-os-4125733
- I was on El Capitan, so I disabled SIP as described and re-enabled it
- Download unetbootin from http://unetbootin.github.io/
- Install from iso, which did work for me though authors claim it doesn't.
- Restart computer
- Use the arrow keys to select either the Boot EFI\boot\... entry (rEFInd) or the EFI Drive entry (Mac boot manager) from the list.
- Click "Try without installing Linux"
- Boom. Watch it load.
```
Failed Attempt
- See below for my "Attempt #1", which failed because I saw the error from REFind, "Starting legacy loader / Using load options 'USB' / Please make sure that you have the latest firmware update installed. / * Hit any key to continue *, which means that Mac's firmware is conflicting with the linux startup sequence, and it needs to be formatted in another way to comply.
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- List your partitions, which is another entity different from and part of your disks
df -h
- Unmount the partition by its name using this strange syntax
diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s2 Volumes/OSE on disk2s2 unmounted
- Finally, download the linux.iso file onto the flash drive
- Note that we target the "disk2" (the disk) and not "disk2s2" (the partition)
- There is strange syntax here, adding an "r" in btwn /dev/ and disk2 for /dev/rdisk2
- Use "CLT+T" command to check it's downloading progress
- Not sure what bs= does, seems like a timeout prevention thing
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/OSELinux1.0.iso of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1048576
- Wait 30+ minutes for download to complete
```