Opensuse 13.1 and Macosx NFS with static ports

Posted on Sun 26 January 2014 in misc • Tagged with firewall, nfs, mac

Since my new lab setup, everything on my main opensuse Linux machine is now in a different Juniper zone to my mac laptop and thus firewalled.

This NFS setup for me was one of the few times where it was easier to do the same thing in RHEL5.  I was …


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Creating disk images in mac osx with DD and diskutil

Posted on Mon 20 January 2014 in misc • Tagged with mac

I keep forgetting the diskutil commands so I've dumped them in the this post. To use dd in mac you have to remember to umount the volume first (as everything gets auto mounted)

mount - find the path for the mounted volume i.e /dev/disk3s1 (diskutil list) is also useful …


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