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Mac OSX-F14-desktop with Virtualbox Boot USB

This is a 4GB USB that is booted on a MacBook Air with a boot helper CD

It opens a Soas-v3-Mirabelle Virtual Appliance located on a 2nd USB
This 2nd USB can be exchanged with that of another student.

This is proposed as a first solution for SL#598 Boot Helper Virtual Machine

How you can get it

Boot USB

4GB USB to be booted in a MAX ONLY:Mac_F14_Vbox.img.tar.bz2

Download it and decompress it (linux)

dd command to copy it to your 4GB USB

To Write to your 4GB USB (linux)

/dev/sd(x) BE CERTAIN THIS IS THE DEVICE ADDRESS OF YOUR USB

type mount in terminal to see device (/dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; /dev/sde....etc

root@xxx:/home/xxx/Desktop# dd if=Mac_F14_Vbox.img of=/dev/sd(x)
7831552+0 records in
7831552+0 records out
4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1365.52 s, 2.9 MB/s
root@xxx:/home/xxx/Desktop#

Soas-v3 Mirabelle virtualbox files to put on 2nd USB

Boot Helper CD's

MAC SOAS-3 Mirabelle Boot DISK

soas-3-boot-test.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)

Read Me First & Credits to Programmer

MAC SOAS-4 Mango lassi Boot DISK

soas-4-boot-test (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)

How it was Made

F14 Desktop USB with Virtualbox installed

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 ===Soas-v3 Mirabelle virtualbox files to put on 2nd USB===
-===Boot Helper CD===
+=====Boot Helper CD's=====
+*MAC SOAS-3 Mirabelle Boot DISK
+::[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-3-boot-test.iso soas-3-boot-test.iso] (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
+::[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-3-boot-test.txt Read Me First & Credits to Programmer]
+*MAC SOAS-4 Mango lassi Boot DISK
+::[http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso soas-4-boot-test] (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)
 ===How it was Made===

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