Tutorials/Installation/Burn a CD.iso on a Mac

• Use the ← left________________________right → links in the blue top/bottom bars

to connect to another part of this Annotated Guide to Sugar

← Sugar Creation Kit

Connecting to the Internet →

Burning a Live CD from an .iso on a MAC

• Click on the CD.iso

In this case a trisquel-sugar_5.0_i686-20111204.iso Downloaded to the desktop

2-button mouse:Right click: Open with DiskImageMounter.app.

• Or if you have an Apple single button Mouse:

Double-Click on the trisquel-sugar_5.0_i686-20111204.iso

A Mounted Drive will appear on the Desktop.

The cursor in this screen shot is pointing to it.

• Move Mouse to bottom of screen until pop-up menu bar appears

Open the folder Applications and the folder UtilitiesInside it; Select the:'Diskutility.app.

• In the Open Disk Utility:

Select the mounted trisquel-sugar_5.0_i686-20111204.iso in Disk Utility.

In blue in the following screen shot

• Insert Unused CD in Mac Slot.
• Click on Burn on the Disk Utility top bar. (Circle with yellow and Black sectors)

The cursor in this screen shot is pointing to it.

the CD burns; is verified and Ejected.

• This Live CD will boot on a PC and a MAC.
• For A Mac Boot from this CD:
• insert CD

Hold down the C key as you press the power button and hold it until the CD Boots

This may take 10-30 Seconds to occur.

• NOTE: No Network connection seems to be possible with the Mac Hardware. (Wireless or wired)

A D-Link DWL USB Wireless Adapter (Dongle) will work on the Trisquel 5 Sugar CD if inserted after boot. (This is very unreliable)

• A VirtualBox 4.1x for OSX install on a MAC is the recommended way to use sugar on a MAC.

Information Here: VirtualBox and Downloadable Appliances

• Importable prebuilt VirtualBox Appliances are just below this link

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