PowerISO will start burning the dmg file to the disc. You can see the detailed progress information during burning. If no error occurs, you should see the message, 'Burning completed successfully.' at the end of burning. If 'Verify written data' is set, PowerISO will compare the source data with the data written to the disc, and show the compare result after comparing completes.
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Creating a bootable USB drive for the Apple PowerPCs is complicated due to the fact that they use Apple's HFS (Hierarchical File System) as its native file system. But with the help of some special tools available on PowerPC Linux, construction of bootable drives is possible. Here is how it's done.
Your Mileage May Vary
I have a PowerBook G4 running Xubuntu 10.04 and I will be using a 1 GB USB drive. This means that while the information is accurate for this hardware but you may have to adapt it to your circumstances.
I used the UNIX convention of the user prompt as
'$ ' and the root prompt as '# '. The prompt that you see may differ from this so make adjustments for it.I have expanded many of the directories in the commands. This is to make clear what they're are. A isolated period for the current directory is hard to spot, so I wrote it as the longer version. You may, of course, use the shortest version to save typing.
Create A Working Directory
The first step is to create a place to work. Open a terminal and create a directory to work in.
We going to need two mount points. In Linux, a mount point is simply a directory, so:
Open your browser and download the ISO image of Linux you want to use. My browser puts it in the Downloads directory. Move the ISO image to your working directory.
Working As root
To create the drive, it is necessary to work as
root. Use sudo to start a shell as root.Determining The Serial Drive Of The USB
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When you plug a USB device into the computer, the Linux OS assigns it a serial device number and creates an entry for it in the
/dev directory. These devices are given a file name in the form of /dev/sd? where the ? is a lowercase letter starting with a.To determine which file is the USB drive, before you plug it in do:
This gives you a list of all the existing serial drives. Now plug it in and repeat the above command. The new one is the one for the USB drive. Write it down; you'll need it later.
Note: For the following examples, I'll be using
/dev/sda. Change this to the device you discovered here.If any window opened when you plugged in the drive, close them all. Also, if any partition was mounted, unmount it. You can tell if any are mounted with this command:
As you can see, the partition
/dev/sda2, which is part of /dev/sda is mounted. To unmount it:If it doesn't complain, it worked.
Partitioning The USB Drive
Warning: This step will destroy any data on the USB drive.
The drive must be partitioned in HFS. The utility
mac-fdisk does this.The first step is to initialize a new map. Use the
i command for this.If a map already exists, which is likely, answer
y to reinitialize it. When asked for it size, just press RETURN for the default which is the maximum size.Now, take a look at the map; use the
p command for this. You'll be using this command to get the first block of the remaining partitions. They're listing under the column called base.Now create the bootstrap partition with the
b command. Use the base of the /dev/sda2 as its first block.The remainder of the drive will be used to hold the files from the ISO image. We will create a Linux partition for that. Use to
c command to do this. Copy & paste the base and length for the first block and length. I used the name 'xubuntu' for the partition but you can use any you like, or leave it blank.Now write the map to the drive with the
w command. Answer y to the question.Finally, quit with
q.Note: Your system might automatically mount the partitions. If it does, unmount them.
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Listing The Partitions
You can list the partition on the device at anytime with the
-l option of mac-fdisk. This will come in handy when mounting the partitions.Creating A File System
A file system has to be created on the partition. I choose to make it
ext2 since this does not require the access time to be updated every time a file is read.The
-v is for verbose output. Since this takes some time, this tells you what is happening. The -L option allows you to name the file system. Leave it out if you don't want to.Loading The ISO Files
Note: This could take a long, long time, like 20-30 minutes. Also, the computer is doing a lot of I/O, so it may not be very responsive to anything you do, like move the mouse. My advice: go for coffee.
Mount the USB drive.
Mount the ISO file as a file system.
Now, load the ISO files to the device.
This command is complicated but can be broken down. This parenthesis groups the commands. The pipe, '|' tells it to pipe the stdout of the first group to the stdin of the second.
The first command of the first group changes the directory to the ISO image. It then runs the Tape ARchiver (
tar) in the directory. The c option means to create a new archive. The B option means to read full records; this makes it go as fast as it can. The p option preserves permissions. The f option means the name of the archive follows. This this case, it's a minus sign, which means it will sent its archive to stdout, which becomes the stdin of the second group. And finally, the period means start in the current working directory, which is ./iso.
The first command of the second group changes the directory to
./usb, our USB drive. Then another tar takes over. The x option means to extract the files from the archive in stdin. The v option means verbose: list the files as they are extracted. The rest of the options are as above but the minus sign means to read the archive from stdin.Snow Leopard has been out of support since 2014 but still it is available for purchase on Apple’s App store. Snow Leopard is the last release of Mac OS X that supports the 32-bit Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo CPUs. Snow leopard dmg usb bootable. It was also the last version to display a welcome video at its first boot.
The computer may be ready for more commands before all the bytes are written. This is because the low-level writes are buffered. It may be a while until it responds to your next command.
Now, get a copy of the bootloader,
yaboot, and its configuration file.The
chmod command makes the configuration file writable.Formatting The Bootstrap Partition
The bootstrap partition must be formatted before it can be used. Use the
hformat utility for this.The
-l option allows you to give a label to the volume. Leave it out if you want it unnamed.Loading The Bootstrap Partition
The bootloader for Linux devices on the PowerPC is
yaboot. It has to be loaded into the bootstrap partition and its attributes set. To do these, the volume must be mounted. Here is the sequence of commands to do this; all of them are special utilities for dealing with HFS.The
hmount command mounts the partition so the other commands can work with it. The hcopy command copies the yaboot program to the USB drive. Its -r option means copy raw; no conversion takes place. The colon is the HFS root directory. HFS uses colons where Linux uses slashes. The first hattrib commands sets the attributes of the yaboot program. The tbxi code is a special code used by Apple to signify that the program is the bootloader program. There should be only one of these on a device. The second hattrib commands blesses the root directory. I'm not sure what this means but it is required for the device to boot. Finally, the humount dismounts the partition.Configuring The Bootstrap
The
yaboot bootloader is configured by the yaboot.conf file. It has two parts: a header and a list of images. The image section behinds with the first image= option. Open the yaboot.conf file in your favourite text editor and find the image section. Delete everything before it. (OK, you can keep the comments.) In their place, insert this:The
root option tells where the root directory will be mounted, in this case, RAM. The partition option says that all the images are in the third partition of the device. The message is the message yaboot will display at the start of the boot process. More on this later.Save the changes and exit the editor.
Now, load the
yaboot.conf file with the following.Changing The Boot Message (Optional)
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First, mount the partition.
Create a local copy and change it.
Open it in your favourite text editor and change it to what you like. Save it and exit the editor. Now, load it on the device.
All Done
The USB drive is now ready for use. The last thing to do is exit the
sudo shell.You will need two things to create a LiveUSB drive from a Linux/Intel machine.
The first is
mac-fdisk. I don't not know if a binary for this exists but you can download the source and compile it. One downlaod site is the mac-fdisk source at Debian.Psf Josh Setsyssersum.dmg To Usb File
The other item you will need is
hfsutils. This is available as a binary and can be downloaded using your package manager.Shawn H Corey
<SHCOREY at cpan.org>Contributing Authors
(Insert your name here if you modified this documentation. Do not remove this comment.)
Thanks to Skeeve42 at Ubuntu forums for his pointers.
Thanks to OSXbook.com How to calculate burn dmg. for their insights on Open Firmware works.
Thanks to homey at LinuxQuestions.org for the mount ISO command.
Thanks to Sergio Hernandez for pointing out the
hfsutils to me.Psf Josh Setsyssersum.dmg To Usb Cable
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