possible to install armbian with dd?

[bsammon]

Is it possible to install armbian using dd?

 

I see the instructions say to use USBImager is recommended.  However, my situation is that the computer I am using is an ARM64 running Linux, and it appears there is not a binary download of USBImager available for ARM64-linux.

 

I could compile my own copy of USBImager, but it seems  like it might be simpler to use dd.  Or--is there an alternative to USBImager that I could install on my ARM64-linux (debian), preferably using the package manager?

 

[Werner]

Of course, dd works too. The major issue with using this though is the lack of verification. While rare either dd or the target device can cause issues which are not detected while writing but when trying to read from the written device.

USBimager and others like etcher verify all written data  to make sure there is no issue.

So if you run into weird hard to explain troubles, this could be a reason.

 

arm64 download: https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager/-/blob/binaries/usbimager_1.0.10-aarch64-linux-x11.zip