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HOWTO Create USB installation medium (MacOS)

IGEL OS Creator Manual

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NOTE: Another tool that can be used to copy ISO image onto USB stick is Rufus

Create USB installation medium (Appe MacOS)

Steps

1) Install USB drive

2) Open Terminal

3) Find device mount point (diskutil list)

   % diskutil list
   /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
      1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
      2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1.0 TB     disk0s2

   /dev/disk1 (synthesized):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.0 TB     disk1
                                    Physical Store disk0s2
      1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk1s1
      2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     493.3 GB   disk1s2
      3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.5 MB    disk1s3
      4:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.9 MB   disk1s4
      5:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s5

   /dev/disk2 (external, physical):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *30.6 GB    disk2
      1:        Apple_partition_map                         4.1 KB     disk2s1
      2:                  Apple_HFS                         2.5 MB     disk2s2

4) Unmount USB drive (diskutil unmount /dev/diskX)

   % diskutil unmountdisk /dev/disk2
   Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

   % ls
   DiscUtils.dll
   IGEL OS Creator Manual-v1-20200401_200841.pdf
   License.txt
   Readme.txt
   Readme_3.3.1.0.txt
   dd.exe
   licenses_osc.zip
   osc11.04.100.iso
   preparestick.exe
   readme11.04.100.txt

5) Copy ISO image to USB drive (sudo dd if=OSC-file.iso of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m)

   % sudo dd if=osc11.04.100.iso of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m
   Password:

   2502+1 records in
   2502+1 records out
   2623733760 bytes transferred in 94.942156 secs (27635077 bytes/sec)