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Short list of steps followed to create a OpenElec Raspberry Pi SDCard on OSX Mountain Lion
  1. Download the most recent image from http://openelec.thestateofme.com/ Scroll towards the bottom, it should be the last file.
  2. Unzip the image somewhere
  3. Plug in a SDCard for the RaspberryPi, run diskutil list to find out what disk your SDCard is mounted as.
  4. Use Disk Utility to format your SDCard as FAT32
  5. Unmount your SDCard, run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<id_of_your_sd_card>
  6. Put the image on your disk dd if=/<location_of_your_image>/r12563.img of=/dev/<id_of_your_sd_card> bs=1m
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