Put the USB stick in the USB port of your Mac.Īnd press the Enter key.Now a list of your storage devices is displayed in the Terminal window, underneath what you typed earlier.

The Terminal application is located in the folder /Applications/Utilities/ of your Macintosh HD volume.Īnd press the Enter key. Write down the full path name as mentioned in the dialog box. In our case, rename moblin.img to moblin.dmg. If you don’t know how to do that, read this instruction on the AppleInsider forum, or do a Google search on FAT32 disk utility. Formatted as FAT32 Start the application Disk Utility (located in the folder /Applications/Utilities/ of your Macintosh HD volume), stick in your USB stick, and format it as FAT32. A non-administrative account will not work. Prerequisites Logged in as administrator Because you are going to use the sudo command, you have to be logged in as an administrator. However, one can’t assume someone landing on this page to know of such things, so I added that to the instruction (sort of). That wasn’t included in the instruction, because it is so obvious. Of course, you need to format your USB stick so, that both Mac OS X and a PC can read it, in other words, use the lowest common denominator, also known as FAT32 (or: MS-DOS format). I did some more poking around with Google, and found a Dutch description of how one might do this with Mac OS X sec, so without any additional software. Since I don’t have such a device, it was a bit of a dud. Until now I only had found a Windows solution for this, which required a physical Windows machine. Now I didn’t want to create a Live CD, but rather a “Live USB stick”, which would be so much easier than connecting an external DVD drive to my netbook (a MSI wind).

I heard a presentation about Intel’s new Linux distro for mobile Internet devices, called Moblin.

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