GameJam: Star Busters 3 Mac OS
5,326 likes 5 talking about this. The fastest route from idea to finished game. Create, inspire, delight with the collaborative game engine Defold. Get inspired on defold.com. Documentation installation installing-images mac Copying an operating system image to an SD card using Mac OS. Raspberry Pi Imager is the recommended option for most users to write images to SD cards. Determine SD device. Insert the SD card in the slot or connect the SD card reader with the SD card inside. Flashing an SD card is quite straight forward with Mac OS X. Start by pressing CMD SPACE to reveal the Spotlight search bar at the top right hand side of the screen. In this search bar, type terminal and press return to launch the Terminal application. Insert the SD card into your Mac’s SD card drive.
Raspberry Pi Imager is the recommended option for most users to write images to SD cards.
Determine SD device
Gamejam: Star Busters 3 Mac Os Update
- Insert the SD card in the slot or connect the SD card reader with the SD card inside.
Command Line
diskutil list
Example (the SD card is /dev/disk2 - your disk and partition list may vary):
Graphical / Disk Utility
- From the Apple menu, choose 'System Report', then click on 'More info...'.
- Click on 'USB' (or 'Card Reader' if you are 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 is in the form
diskN
(for example,disk4
).Record this name. - using Disk Utility, unmount the partition.Do not eject it.
Copy the image
Gamejam: Star Busters 3 Mac Os X
Command Line
Note: The use of the dd
tool can overwrite any partition of your machine.If you specify the wrong device in the instructions, you could overwrite your primary Mac OS partition!
The disk must be unmounted before copying the image
Copy the image
Replace
N
with the number that you noted before. Note therdisk
('raw disk')instead ofdisk
, this speeds up the copying.This can take more than 15 minutes, depending on the image file size.Check the progress by pressing Ctrl+T.
If the command reports
dd: /dev/rdiskN: Resource busy
, you need to unmount the volume firstsudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
.If the command reports
dd: bs: illegal numeric value
, change the block sizebs=1m
tobs=1M
.If the command reports
dd: /dev/rdiskN: Operation not permitted
, go toSystem Preferences
->Security & Privacy
->Privacy
->Files and Folders
->Give Removable Volumes access to Terminal
.If the command reports
dd: /dev/rdiskN: Permission denied
, the partition table of the SD card is being protected against being overwritten by Mac OS. Erase the SD card's partition table using this command:That command will also set the permissions on the device to allow writing.Now issue the
dd
command again.
Eject
After the dd
command finishes, eject the card: