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Reduce the number of choices to be made in Mac installation command lines

Step 2.7 of Mac installation is a bit crazy and you have to choose between different paths:

  • Using “sudo” or not using “sudo”
  • Using “disk” or “rdisk”
  • Using “16m” or “16M”

We should:

  • Check if “sudo” is needed on recent versions of macOS and use it by default if it’s the case.
  • Use “rdisk” by default. For example using as placeholder only the number of the device (instead of /dev/disk[number]. Why would someone try the slow version first anyway?

Parent Task: #14548

Original created by @sajolida on 15124 (Redmine)

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