Root Mac users?

[EKG]

Looking at the instructions for rooting, it seems like it is exclusive for PC users. Is this true? Are us Mac users out of luck?

 

[phobic]

Boot into Windows via Boot Camp/Virtual Machine for the time being?

 

[Fabolous]

Pretty sure you can set up adb on a Mac. Take a look at the Android SDK website, there should be a Mac package to download.

All the commands will be the same, you just have to get ADB set up.

 

[EKG]

Don't you have to do something with a .exe file? Mac won't recognize those.

 

[Fabolous]

No, there's no executable involved in the root process.

Just pushing a lot of files onto your sdcard, then using the PC as a shell into the phone's command line.

You can do this on any system (PC, Linux, Mac)

 

[Sublimation]

Mac SDK package. That should get ya the Mac SDK package. I'm going to be giving this a shot later... Just use the Terminal in OSX instead of the Command Prompt.

Edit: Adding a link to the adding SDK components page.

 

[djbsquared]

This page might be helpful as well: Installing the SDK | Android Developers

Step 2 is the necessary step for adding the location of the SDK to your PATH so that it works without you having to be in the directory to run ADB.

 

[NKT]

You should just have to get the SDK for Mac, change the extension of the root scripts from .bat to .sh.

Then to run the scripts, make sure to do a ./

 

[Quasse]

I just finished rooting on my mac, everything went great with a few minor changes. Details are on my blog : Rooting your Droid X | The Peter Den Hartog Blog