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Lenovo Xiaoxing 14IAH8 Laptop.

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk6 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *30.8 GB disk6 1: Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME 30.8 GB disk6s1

% diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk6

Unmount of disk6 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted. Unmount was dissented by PID 319 (/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds_stores). Dissenter parent PPID 1 (/sbin/launchd).

% diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/disk6
sudo dd if=archlinux-2025.02.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk6 bs=1m

1179+1 records in
1179+1 records out
1236303872 bytes transferred in 46.777995 secs (26429176 bytes/sec)

The USB drive is locked by the current security policy.

Press F2 to enter the BIOS and disable Secure Boot.

ip link
iwctl
device list
station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks
station wlan0 connect SSID
ping archlinux.org
timedatectl

For some reason, I decided to install Ubuntu instead.


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