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--- documentation:end-users_docs [2020/01/16 17:58] – [Enabling crash dump] olivier
+++ documentation:end-users_docs [2021/02/23 12:01] (current) – [Installation] olivier
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 == Mac OS X users ==
-Insert the USB key, and run mount in a terminal (or disk utility if you prefer graphical method) to see what device OSX has assigned to your USB key. You should see something like this:
+Insert the USB key, and display list of external devices:
 <code>
+% diskutil list | grep external
+/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
+</code>
+Check if it is already mounted
+<code>
+% mount | grep '/dev/disk3'
 /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
 devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
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 /dev/disk3s1 on /Volumes/UNTITLED (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
 </code>
-The last line is your USB device. Unmount it and write the BSDRP image to it with:
+The last line is your USB device. Unmount it and write the BSDRP image to the device adding the 'r' letter:
 <code>
 sudo umount -f /dev/disk3s1
-xzcat BSDRP_full_amd64_vga.1.0.img.xz | dd of=/dev/disk3 bs=256k
+xzcat BSDRP_full_amd64_vga.1.0.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m
 </code>
-If successful, OSX will pop up an error dialog telling you it doesn't recognize the disk. Click 'Eject', remove the USB key, and you're done.
+If successful, OSX will pop up an error dialog telling you it doesn't recognise the disk. Click 'Eject', remove the USB key, and you're done.
 === To an hard drive ===