EasyOS Install on iMac External HDD

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jmgm18
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EasyOS Install on iMac External HDD

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Hello,

I am totally new to Linux, I can barely use Terminal/Console to enter commands, have no real clue what I'm doing. I am a Mac user who knows how to point and click, that's about all. I heard about EasyOS as a secure/private OS, and am very eager to use it.

I can boot EasyOS on my iMac from a USB Stick, but would like to try it on my WD Red 4TB External HDD (spinning platter *not SSD). I am using easy-3.4.7-amd64.img.gz

I have read Barry's instructions on "How to install EasyOS on your hard drive" -- April 24, 2022, and have very carefully duplicated his process for my iMac (twice) but when I "Alt" Boot, my external HDD with the EasyOS Boot partition and Working partition do not show as an option. I have used GParted to partition my external HDD, and made the changes to enable encryption, and changed the Initrd file per the 2022.04.24 notes by Barry. I cannot find a folder named EFI anywhere on my USB of easy-3.4.7 OS, otherwise I have exactly followed all instructions.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance :)

My equipment:

Mac OS 10.13.6 High Sierra (Due to older hardware, this is the newest version I can run)
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011 12,1)
2.7 GHz Intel QuadCore i5
RAM 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
WD Red4TB:
Capacity: 3.74 TB (3,744,443,056,128 bytes)
Available: 2.67 TB (2,671,767,347,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
PARTITIONS:
disk2s4 (EasyOS Working partition):
Capacity: 127.33 GB (127,327,535,104 bytes)
File System: MS-DOS (ext4)
BSD Name: disk2s4
Content: Microsoft Basic Data
disk2s5 (EasyOS Boot partition):
Capacity: 671.1 MB (671,088,640 bytes)
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk2s5
Content: EFI

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Re: EasyOS Install on iMac External HDD

Post by BarryK »

You have written the .img file to usb stick.

Plug in the usb stick and you will see that it has two partitions. Click on the first one, the vfat partition, and there is the EFI folder.

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