Creating Boot Disk on Mac

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I have purchased a Terramaster Nas that I am going to convert to Truenas Scale. It has 2 x M.2 NVMe slots and I am going to use one for the operating system and the other used for the Apps pool.

I want to create a bootable os on one of the M.2 ssd’s but I only have a Mac and not sure how to actually do it, any suggestions would be appreciated.

WouldI it help if I had a NVMe enclosure so I can write to it from my Mac?

Thanks

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You can’t and shouldn’t. Write the installer to a USB stick; use that to install the OS on the m.2 drive.

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Thanks, so what you are saying is add the os on usb and put this into the nas and copy over to the m.2 ssd? if I have understood you correctly.

Do you know how to create the usb on a Mac?
Cheers

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I’m saying put the installer on the USB.

Use dd at the shell as you would under Linux (following the docs), or Balena Etcher, or even Raspberry Pi Imager.

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