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Pavel Zhovner edited this page Aug 20, 2017 · 1 revision

I've made a snapshot of linux system with Magic Setup Assistant for USB flash drive. You can write this is image to USB drive and test current state of our system. It works on the PC and Mac.

Download image magic-sa-liveusb.img 800MB.

Create bootable USB drive in macOS

Connect USB flash disk.

  1. Find the disk path diskutil list

  2. Unmount USB disk diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3 Replace /dev/disk3/ with your actual path.

  3. Clone image to the USB disk dd dd if=/path/to/magic-sa-liveusb.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m Replace /dev/rdisk3 with your actual path. Notice the r letter in path.

  4. Reboot and choose USB disk as boot device.

Create bootable USB drive in Windows

  1. Download Rufus rufus.akeo.ie/

  2. Write magic-sa-liveusb.img to USB disk

  1. Reboot and choose USB disk as boot device.
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