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[Edit - just to make it clear - I want to use my mac to create the bootable USB drive, but it will be used to boot the Aspire One)
I have a Acer Aspire One which I am trying to install 'EasyPeasy' linux on via a usb drive. (its a version of ubuntu remix)
I have downloaded the .iso to my mac, now I need to copy it onto my usb drive so that it will be bootable by the Aspire One.
I thought I had manged this last night using the following command:
$ mount
$ diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk1
$ dd if=(myeasypeasy.iso) of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
(I entered the full path).
This took about 30 minutes and appeared to work (I saw something like this)
681+1 records in
681+1 records out
714407936 bytes transferred in 2236.533110 secs (319426 bytes/sec)
HOWEVER - On inserting the usb into the Aspire, and telling it to boot from the USB it still didn't - it appeared to read the usb for a few seconds before booting as usual from the SSD Drive.
I know that I need the USB to be formatted to FAT32 - do I need to tell it do this using the dd command?
I have a Acer Aspire One which I am trying to install 'EasyPeasy' linux on via a usb drive. (its a version of ubuntu remix)
I have downloaded the .iso to my mac, now I need to copy it onto my usb drive so that it will be bootable by the Aspire One.
I thought I had manged this last night using the following command:
$ mount
$ diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk1
$ dd if=(myeasypeasy.iso) of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
(I entered the full path).
This took about 30 minutes and appeared to work (I saw something like this)
681+1 records in
681+1 records out
714407936 bytes transferred in 2236.533110 secs (319426 bytes/sec)
HOWEVER - On inserting the usb into the Aspire, and telling it to boot from the USB it still didn't - it appeared to read the usb for a few seconds before booting as usual from the SSD Drive.
I know that I need the USB to be formatted to FAT32 - do I need to tell it do this using the dd command?