malaga Posted November 14, 2018 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, malaga said: which tool do you use for wrinting images to SD-CARD Etcher is the best one ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaga Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor_K Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 `dd` is already installed. just as an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaga Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 many thanks dear igor !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivluca Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 4 hours ago, Igor said: If you like to gamble ... use DD Why "gamble"? dd works just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivluca Posted November 18, 2018 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chwe Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivluca Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Right, add a "count=x/512" or "bs=1 count=x" to the second dd command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 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 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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