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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Setting up an SD card from a Mac?
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:04 -0000









--- In  "Blair" <> wrote:
>
> Has anyone done an SD card setup (dd from a TS-supplied SD image file) from a 
> Mac?  If so, what did you do?  I tried it and I didn't get the full set of 
> partitions.
>

I did this last night. Here's how...

 * download the image file from ftp.embeddedarm.com. It's very slow so plan 
ahead :)
 * Insert the SD card into your USB<->SDcard device
 * Open up Disk Utility and right-click on the card device 
      - click on the actual device itself, not the partitions. The one that's 
not indented.
      - select 'Information' and look for 'Disk identifier'. In my case it was 
'disk1'
 * Now click on the partition and see that the 'Unmount' option is now 
available at the top
      - click 'unmount' (NOT 'eject') after highlighting the partition. 
      - I only had one partition. You may have to do it for each partition

 * Use 'dd' to write the image-file to the disk device, vis:

            dd if=/path/to/image-file of=/dev/diskX

            ... where "diskX" is the identifier you got from Disk utility. 

 * Type 'sync' at the commandline and take out the SD card.  
 * Insert the SD card into the TS-7300 and boot it up.

If you're going to do this, *PLEASE* make sure you get the 'diskX' part 
correct. You can overwrite your boot partition and render the mac unbootable 
when you're playing with disk interfaces like this. I know, you know this, but 
it's worth mentioning :)

Simon



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