You can use this script to retrieve the name of your USB stick.
The name of your USB stick can be used in Apple's sudo command to create a USB installer.
Step 1: Open the Terminal application
Step 2: Go to your home directory, type: # cd
Step 3: Optionally create a scripts directory, type: # mkdir scripts
Step 4: Navigate to the newly created scripts directory, type: # cd scripts
Step 5: Create a bash script, type: # vim usbstick.sh
Step 6: Insert the following code:
Boot into the Windows installer
On the first screen press SHIFT + F10
# diskpart # list disk # select disk 0 # list part Look for the Windows partition # select part 3 # assign letter=W # format quick fs=NTFS # list volume Look for the EFI volume # select volume 2 # assign letter=Z # exit # D: Goto the USB installer of Windows # cd D:\sources # dir install* The file install.esd exists # dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:D:\Sources\install.esd Select the Index of the version of Windows you want # dism...
# hdiutil convert /path/to/refit-0.14.cdr -format UDRW -o /path/to/refit-0.14.img # diskutil list # diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 # sudo dd if=/path/to/refit-0.14.img.dmg of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m Using rdisk2 here seems to speed up things # diskutil eject /dev/disk2
Follow the steps below to install rEFIt to the EFI partition of an iMac
Download rEFIt and copy the efi folder to the /efi folder as explained below
Before you do the bless command disable the SIP
Boot in recovery mode
# csrutil status
# csrutil disable
# reboot
sudo mkdir /efi sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /efi sudo bless --mount /efi --setBoot --file /efi/EFI/refit/refit.efi --labelfile /efi/EFI/refit/refit.vollabel
To make a script to run remote commands in a client server network.
import subprocess def ssh_exec_command(hostname, username, command): ssh_cmd = ['ssh', f'{username}@{hostname}', command] ssh_process = subprocess.Popen( ssh_cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True ) output, error = ssh_process.communicate() if error: print("Error:", error) else: print("Output:", output) # Replace these with your actual credentials...
In case you have an old legacy system with Python 2 still in use and want to make a script to run certain commands in a client server network.
import subprocess def ssh_exec_command(hostname, username, private_key_path, command): ssh_cmd = ['ssh', '-i', private_key_path, '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', f'{username}@{hostname}', command] ssh_process = subprocess.Popen( ssh_cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE )...
