which tool do you use for wrinting images to SD-CARD - i am on Manjaro -linux

[malaga]

dear communuity

 

which tool do you use for wrinting images to SD-CARD  - i am on Manjaro -linux

iwould love to try
etcher or
imagewrinter

[martinayotte]

2 minutes ago, malaga said:

which tool do you use for wrinting images to SD-CARD

Etcher is the best one ...

[malaga]

tryin to install etcher -

 

heard that this is in the repos and the AUR - of Manjaro.

 

but unfortunatly i was not able to install .

it - (etcher) is not in the octopi-installer tool

[martinayotte]

15 minutes ago, malaga said:

but unfortunatly i was not able to install .

You need to download it from here : https://www.balena.io/etcher/

 

[Igor_K]

`dd` is already installed. just as an option. 

[malaga]

many thanks dear igor !!!

[Igor]

3 hours ago, malaga said:

many thanks dear igor !!!

If you want to minimise possible troubles, you use Etcher. Like we recommend. If you like to gamble ... use DD  

[olivluca]

4 hours ago, Igor said:

If you like to gamble ... use DD  

 

Why "gamble"? dd works just fine.

[martinayotte]

6 minutes ago, olivluca said:

Why "gamble"? dd works just fine.

Since "dd" doesn't any "verify" during or after "writing", there is no guaranty that binary integrity is Ok.

 

[olivluca]

dd if=img of=/dev/mmcblk0
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=img.1
cmp img img.1

 

Done, no need for this newfangled etcher thing

[chwe]

3 hours ago, olivluca said:

Done, no need for this newfangled etcher thing

sure? I don't think so.. Without testing.. what happens to the blocks 'after complete writing' with your second dd command? E.g. our images are at burning only 1GB.. your command should dd it to the end of the card..

If it would be that easy.. I assume etcher wouldn't exist..

 

The other reason, etcher works on all platforms.

 

[olivluca]

Right, add a "count=x/512" or "bs=1 count=x" to the second dd command.

[martinayotte]

10 minutes ago, olivluca said:

"bs=1 count=x"

If you really did that, result will be Ok, but with that blocksize, it will take hours to read back the image ...