Improved description of image installation for mac #239
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Fixed some syntax errors in the general explaination of how to select the destination device. If the user typed `diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk<disk# from diskutil>`, this would result in `diskutil unmountDisk /dev/4` instead of the correct `diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4`.
Users should use `/dev/rdiskn` instead of `/dev/diskn`, because this usually results in dramatically increased data rates. For me, using `/dev/diskn`, dd copied with a speed of ~2 MB per second, while using `/dev/rdiskn`, the speed increased to ~30 MB/s. A hint to use `/dev/disk` instead of `/dev/rdisk` in case of any errors is, of course, included, even if there should no errors appear. (I'm always using `/dev/rdiskn`, and never had any errors, even on multiple computers.)
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Looks much better to me, but I'll leave this one to the Mac users (unless none chime in the next few days). |
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Thank you. |
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Improved description of image installation for mac
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Does this PR being merged mean that some of the other mac-specific issues / PRs could be closed too? |
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Yeah, please. |
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I improved the guide for installing images on mac os:
dd-command/dev/rdiskninstead of/dev/disknin thedd-command. This benefits in dramatically increased data rates.See the description of my commits for further information, and feel free to suggest further improvements in the comments or by creating another pull request. I would really like to see my changes accepted! 😃 Thanks!
And, as always: You're great, folks. Keep it going! 😉