Re: [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News
Thomas C Gilliard <satellit-mcXVpQhkJPlAGhJDL0FuPAC/[email protected]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:04:54 -0700
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============2072907222== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------010405000202080009010304" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010405000202080009010304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Lucian and All, > > Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked. Now that leads to another question. If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that? I have copies of that download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD. > change your directory in terminal to the location of .iso (ie: cd /xxx/xxx) (ls command will tell you where you are) then issue the commands > Caryl > > P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere? Sort of an "Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for Dummies?" > > >> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: soas-g/[email protected]; iaep-g/[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News >> >> Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be >> done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to >> your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside. >> Then the second command does the actual image writing. >> >> On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> >>>> You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type >>>> >>>> cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso >>>> >>>> Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you >>>> please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window? >>>> >>>> >>> Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window. I don't have a lot of >>> experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above >>> including the ; or is is that a punctuation? >>> >>> I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here. >>> >>> Caryl >>> >>> >>>> -- >>>> James Cameron >>>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> SoaS mailing list >>>> SoaS-g/[email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP-g/[email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> SoaS-g/[email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > SoaS-g/[email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > --------------010405000202080009010304 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> <br> Caryl Bigenho wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:[email protected]" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Lucian and All, Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked. Now that leads to another question. If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that? I have copies of that download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD. </pre> </blockquote> change your directory in terminal to the location of .iso (ie: cd /xxx/xxx)<br> (ls command will tell you where you are)<br> then issue the commands<br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:[email protected]" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Caryl P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere? Sort of an "Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for Dummies?" </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100 From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> CC: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:soas-g/[email protected]">soas-g/[email protected]</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iaep-g/[email protected]">iaep-g/[email protected]</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside. Then the second command does the actual image writing. On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi James, </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window. I don't have a lot of experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above including the ; or is is that a punctuation? I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here. Caryl </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-- James Cameron <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS-g/[email protected]">SoaS-g/[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:IAEP-g/[email protected]">IAEP-g/[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS-g/[email protected]">SoaS-g/[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS-g/[email protected]">SoaS-g/[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------010405000202080009010304-- --===============2072907222== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline