Mac OS X-Boot USB with VirtualBox
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 a 4GB USB that is booted on a MacBook Air with a boot helper CD
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 an intel Mac ONLY:Mac_F14_Vbox.img.tar.bz2
- Download it and decompress it (linux)
- DO NOT try to build or import a Virtual Machine on this USB- It is only 4GB in size and it will fill up and be destroyed.
- Use it to point to an existing Virtual Machine on a 2nd 4GB USB ONLY
dd command to copy it to your Boot 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