

- #Install mac ii emulator on a raspberry pi how to#
- #Install mac ii emulator on a raspberry pi install#
- #Install mac ii emulator on a raspberry pi pro#
You can open it and read from it just like any other disk, card, or flash drive you connect to your Mac. Now you'll see the rpi volume mounted in the Finder. See this issue: Unable to open ext4 mounted partition on El Captain. The -o allow_other is required to make sure the mounted disk is readable by everyone (and not just the sudo/ root user).
#Install mac ii emulator on a raspberry pi install#
Using Homebrew, install osxfuse and ext4fuse (find out more about the tools on the FUSE for macOS website):.Make sure you have Homebrew installed (instructions here), so you can install the tools you need to mount the filesystem.The boot volume will be automatically mounted, but it doesn't contain all the files from the Pi's primary filesystem. Next, youll need to check which kit you have. Plug the microSD card into a card reader connected to your Mac. Once Etcher is downloaded, open the program and follow the on-screen instructions to install and run it.
#Install mac ii emulator on a raspberry pi how to#
Here's how to mount the Raspberry Pi's ext4 filesystem on a Mac (almost everything will be done in the Terminal app (in Applications > Utilities)): Luckily, there are open source tools that allow ext4 filesystems to be mounted on a Mac (read-only, but that's all I need to copy off the time-lapse stills and video). But this is annoying, because dd will back up the entire microSD card, not just the data I want. In the past, I would use the dd utility to back up the entire card, and then I would mount that backup disk image and read data off of it. This is normally a bit tricky, because the Raspberry Pi uses the Linux ext4 filesystem-which is not compatible with either macOS or Windows!
#Install mac ii emulator on a raspberry pi pro#
So I decided to finally try to mount the Raspberry Pi's drive directly on my MacBook Pro (running macOS Sierra 10.12). which means it could take a couple hours to copy). For my Raspberry Pi Time-Lapse App, I find myself having to either copy hundreds (or thousands!) of 3+ MB image files, or a 1-2 GB video file from a Raspberry Pi Zero W to my Mac.Ĭopying over the WiFi network works, but it's extremely slow (usually topping out around 5 Mbps.
