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Create a Bootable Win7 USB Stick on OSX

Prerequesites:

• 4GB+ USB Stick
• Windows 7 ISO from Microsoft downloaded to your OSX-Machine

Preparing the drive

1. Open Disk utility
2. Find the drive, format it with the following options:

• Choose Master Boot Record (MBR)

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  <h2>Hello Dima</h2>
  <h1>This</h1>
  <h2>... is the first attempt</h2>
  <br/>
  <h1 class='fragment grow'><a style='color:deepskyblue;' href='http://gist-reveal.it'>With gist-reveal.it</a></h1>
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  <h2>It's so easy!</h2>
  <p>Create your own deck by forking a copy of <a href='https://gist.github.com/ryanj/af84d40e58c5c2a908dd'>this github gist</a>: <br /><a href='https://gist.github.com/ryanj/af84d40e58c5c2a908dd'>https://gist.github.com/ryanj/af84d40e58c5c2a908dd</a></p>

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Nix on macOS Catalina

I'm writing this gist for my own records but it might help someone else too.

Installing Nix

Support for Catalina has improved a lot since the update was first rolled out.

Note: See the NixOS manual for discussion of the --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume option.

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Mac and Linux work the same, storing the keys in ~/.gnupg. The safest way to transfer the files is using scp (part of ssh):

To copy from your local machine to another:
scp -rp ~/.gnupg othermachine:

To copy from a remote machine to your local:
scp -r othermachine:~/.gnupg ~

If you're on the machine that already has the key: