A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Sun Feb 2 02:54:30 UTC 2020


Certain distros specifically state to not use dd and to use other
copying utilities since those distros used structures dd cannot copy
well.  You'll find them by reading the copying instructions as I have
from time to time.

On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 21:44:58
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks
>
> 	I've been using unix commands of one kind or other for 30
> years + and dd is the goto utility when copying disks.  What else should
> we use if not dd?
>
> 	I have just tried two different thumb drives with unix
> distributions on them and both throw an error if you plug them in
> to the mac.  Both drives also mount without incident on a debian
> user system
>
> 	The different format someone mentioned is called ufs or
> something similar
>
> Martin
>
>
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