malaga Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 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 Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 On 11/14/2018 at 9:57 PM, malaga said: which tool do you use for wrinting images to SD-CARD Expand Etcher is the best one ...
malaga Posted November 14, 2018 Author Posted November 14, 2018 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 Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 On 11/14/2018 at 10:06 PM, malaga said: but unfortunatly i was not able to install . Expand You need to download it from here : https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Igor_K Posted November 15, 2018 Posted November 15, 2018 `dd` is already installed. just as an option.
Igor Posted November 17, 2018 Posted November 17, 2018 On 11/17/2018 at 10:34 AM, malaga said: many thanks dear igor !!! Expand If you want to minimise possible troubles, you use Etcher. Like we recommend. If you like to gamble ... use DD
olivluca Posted November 17, 2018 Posted November 17, 2018 On 11/17/2018 at 2:34 PM, Igor said: If you like to gamble ... use DD Expand Why "gamble"? dd works just fine.
martinayotte Posted November 17, 2018 Posted November 17, 2018 On 11/17/2018 at 7:18 PM, olivluca said: Why "gamble"? dd works just fine. Expand Since "dd" doesn't any "verify" during or after "writing", there is no guaranty that binary integrity is Ok.
olivluca Posted November 18, 2018 Posted November 18, 2018 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 Posted November 18, 2018 Posted November 18, 2018 On 11/18/2018 at 9:50 AM, olivluca said: Done, no need for this newfangled etcher thing Expand 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 Posted November 18, 2018 Posted November 18, 2018 Right, add a "count=x/512" or "bs=1 count=x" to the second dd command.
martinayotte Posted November 18, 2018 Posted November 18, 2018 On 11/18/2018 at 2:24 PM, olivluca said: "bs=1 count=x" Expand If you really did that, result will be Ok, but with that blocksize, it will take hours to read back the image ...
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