Nexcom EBC-3A1 Series, User Manual

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Press write to start writing the image to the card. (This may take a couple of
minutes)
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After the Program is finished, you can eject your SD-Card.
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Insert it into your target device, plug-in power cable and you could start using the
device
4.5. Write an SD/MMC Card using MAC OS X
On Mac OS we could use the command line dd tool or using the graphical tool ImageWriter
to write the image to the SD/MMC card.
4.5.1. Graphical interface
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Connect the SD card reader with the SD card inside. Note that it must be
formatted in FAT32.
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From the Apple menu, choose About This Mac, then click on more info...; if you are
using Mac OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion or newer then click on System Report.
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Click on USB (or Card Reader if using a built-in SD card reader) then search for
your SD card in the upper right section of the window. Click on it, then search for
the BSD name in the lower right section; it will look something like 'diskn' where n
is a number (for example, disk4). Make sure you take a note of this number.
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Unmount the partition so that you will be allowed to overwrite the disk; to do this,
open Disk Utility and unmount it (do not eject it, or you will have to reconnect it).
Note that On Mac OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion, "Verify Disk" (before unmounting)
will display the BSD name as "/dev/disk1s1" or similar, allowing you to skip the
previous two steps.
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From the terminal run:
sudo dd bs=1m if=<image_path>/ubuntu12-full-image.img of=/dev/diskn
Remember to replace
n
with the number that you noted before!
4.5.2. Command line
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If you are comfortable with the command line, you can image a card without any additional software.
Run:
diskutil list
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Identify the disk (not partition) of your SD card e.g.
disk4
(not
disk4s1
):
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<disk# from diskutil>