Re: Ideas required on testing an application install
Re: Ideas required on testing an application install
- Subject: Re: Ideas required on testing an application install
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:30:15 -0500
On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
* It annoys me to wait for CDs/DVDs to boot, so (like another person
who posted) I like to have a small bootable partition on a hard
drive somewhere. Someone else pointed out you can boot from a thumb
drive, which is a great idea I will have to try next time I download
an OS seed.
And the command to blast down a dmg of a system onto said partition
such that it can be booted is....
sudo asr -source /Path/to/SeedDownload.dmg -target /Volumes/
MyBootablePartitionThatWillBeNuked -erase -noverify -noprompt
It is every bit as destructive to MyBootablePartitionThatWillBeNuked
as the paramaters imply. Once done, you can reboot and hold down the
<option> key to select the volume.
It'll be interested to see what kind of performance one achieves when
booting from an SD card. Given their price ($40 for a class-6 SDHC
card), it would be an attractive and convenient option.
Certainly, I know that when I have a moment, I'm going to prep a 16GB
card with two bootable partitions; one containing an emergency Leopard
boot image configured to use my user account on the internal drive and
one that contains DiskWarrior and a couple of other tools.
b.bum
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