![]() The instructions assume you are starting with a jump drive that the Mac recognizes, but might not have MS_DOS FAT32 formatting. When he says to select the drive you want to format FAT32, he means this is within Disk Utility. ![]() There are a couple of spots that might not be clear (in item 9, the word, "Apple" appears when he meant "Apply"), but the context should be fairly obvious. You still need Disk Utility to do some of the work, but Tom's command line instructions will do the formatting. You can do in Terminal what Disk Utility does not (yet?) do. At least read the instructions carefully, and be sure anything you do is only with the jump drive or disk drive you want to format. If you decide to try this FAT32 formatting using Terminal, and you are new to using Disk Utility and Terminal, and using Unix language and instructions, maybe you should get someone to help. I was able to do the update just fine using Disk Utility and Terminal command line. Then I followed the firmware update instructions from the TV manufacturer's web site. I found a jump drive and used this archived thread to format the drive. I hardly ever have a Windoze computer handy. I had to download a firmware update for my Vizio LED LCD HDTV. I found this archived thread, and Tom's instructions are the last post in the thread: Thanks to Tom Craigen for this command line method of formatting FAT32.
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