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The same information, displayed every second by in klanomath's answer, can displayed using your command. You just need to enter a controlT character from the keyboard while the dd command is executing....
I have noticed that these instructions no longer work as expected when using the current InstallMacOSX.dmg file, which can be downloaded from either the Apple website "How to get old versions of ...
Try the command given below. id -Gn [user] On my Mac, the output from id -Gn davidanderson is given below. staff everyone localaccounts _appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin _appstore ...
Installing Windows 7 or 10 Pro 64 bit without DVD or Flash Drive If you are trying to install Windows 7 on a 2012 through 2014 Mac, then you should read my answer to this question. Special thanks ...
An update version of this has been posted here. Note: These instruction have been updated for use with Ubuntu 18. This answer installs Ubuntu on your computer without the use of third parity tools ...
Mateusz Szlosek covered the first part. Below is how I have handled the second part for my own use. In my haste to post my answer, I did not realize the second part has already has been answered. See ...
These instructions are for the latest Intel Macs which boot macOS from an APFS volume and EFI boot both Windows and Ubuntu. If you need to install Ubuntu on a Mac with an internal PCIe-based SSD and/...
You can drag the file or folder from Finder application to the dialog box. The full path of the file or folder will appear in the dialog box. Additionally, you can drag a file or folder into the ...
UPDATE An improved procedure for installing Windows 7 can be found at Installing Windows 7 Pro 64 bit without DVD or Flash Drive Note: The updated steps, for installing Windows 8.1 using the ...
According to everymac.com, the latest version of macOS for your Mac is Mojave (10.14.X). However, according to this Apple article, you need to first be running at least High Sierra (10.13.6). You will ...
The binary file goes in /usr/local/bin. Each man page goes in the folder usr/local/share/man/manN where N is the number at the end of the man page file name. For example, gdisk.8 should appear in the ...
Here, I assume the macOS volume that you boot to is Macintosh HD. The commands below should remove the extra partitions and return the free space back to macOS. diskutil erasevolume free none disk0s4 ...
Follow the steps below to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP). Start by booting to macOS Big Sur and opening a Terminal application window. Next, enter the command given below. This will create ...
This is a very common question. Again, here is the commands you need to enter in a Terminal application window. sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s4 sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s3 ...
Installing Windows 10 without DVD or Third Party Tools Note: This version of my answer uses the 21H1 version of Windows 10. The previous version of this answer, which used the 1709 version of Windows ...
You can not create a disk image of a APFS volume. Your closest two alternatives are as follows. The first alternative would be to image the APFS container of the APFS volume. All volumes in the ...
A different user recently posted a similar question on superuser. Since my answer was accepted as correct, I will repost it below. The Basic steps to install 64 bit Windows 10 are as follows. I ...
The pagefile.sys file is used by Windows as virtual memory. Basically, Avast running under macOS is giving you a false positive and thus can be ignored. I tested this by performing a clean install of ...
To prevent a volume from automatically mounting you need to know the filesystem type and either the volume name or volume UUID. This information can be found by using the Terminal application command ...
You probably can not do this. The older versions of the Apple OS X operating systems are not capable of running on hardware yet to be designed. For this to work, Apple would have to have released an ...
A good description can be found at Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector Below is taken verbatim from the above link. The charger startup process When the Magsafe connector is ...
Occasionally, you will encounter scarecrows. Here is one such example. Observe: Marlin:~ davidanderson$ diskutil mount disk0s1 Volume on disk0s1 failed to mount If the volume is damaged, try the "...
diskutil erasevolume "Free Space" "" /dev/disk0s4 diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0s2 R The first command will remove partition /dev/disk0s4. The second command will move /dev/disk0s3 to the ...
Generally you want to keep ownership of your personal files separate from the root user. This is why you create a account for yourself as an administrator. The accepted way, under OS X, to gain root ...
Have you heard of using the man command. For example: man ls or man grep. You can get comprehensive documentation on man by entering man man. Some of the basic keys used by the man command are the f ...
If you want a boot manger which behaves similar to GRUB, the you could install rEFInd. This free boot manager is similar, because rEFInd can be configured to display a menu of operating system choices ...
The icon displayed in the Mac Startup Manager can be changed by putting a icon set file named .VolumeIcon.icns in the root folder of the EFI partition used by Windows. Or, you can follow the ...
According to everymac.com, your Mac is a 2006 model which was discontinued January 8, 2008. (I made the assumption 2.66QX means 2.66 GHz Quad Core Xeon) This model originally was designed to run OS X ...
There is no command in macOS to format a partition to use a linux file system. In other words, there is no equivalent for the Arch Linux mkfs.ext4 command. There are many possible solutions to this ...
Here, I assume you are using High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2). To update the MBR partition table, a mapping of the partition types needs to be known. Below is a table of some commonly found types. Note: ...