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To run version 1.0 from a Mac, you can use DD by following these directions:

NOTE: This will completely erase the entire contents of your USB drive!!!

• Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices:

  diskutil list

• Insert your USB flash drive.
• Run diskutil list again to determine the device node assigned to your flash drive by comparing how the output changed now that your USB flash drive is installed (e.g. /dev/disk2):

  diskutil list
  diskutil unmountDisk

• to unmount the node assigned to your flash drive. Make sure to replace N with the disk number from the last command. In the previous step example, N would be 2:

  diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN

• Now we’re ready to “burn” the image to the USB drive. Run dd as follows, replacing /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located:

  sudo dd if=/path/to/target.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m... read more