On Wednesday 18 September 2019 08:57:43 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 02:42:21PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-09-18 13:46:38) > > > > > On Tuesday 17 September 2019 22:05:28 David wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 08:17, Gene Heskett > > > > <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > what linux command will unpack the .zip and put it on the > > > > > card? > > > > [...] > > > > > > 3) write the SD card > > > > (replace my /dev/sd_ with your SD card device, > > > > without any partition number): > > > > > > > > # unzip -p raspbian_latest.zip | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sd_ > > > > status=progress conv=fsync > > > > > > This last is what I was looking for, thank you, and I'll give it > > > all a shot later today. In fact, card is written. > > > > Essentiall you want to copy all raw content onto the raw device. > > > > This works too (and not only with specially crafted zip files): > > > > $ unzip foo.zip > > $ su -c "cp image-unpacked-from-foo-zip /dev/sd_" > > Also spelt "zcat foo.zip > /dev/sd_" for those who don't want to > leave a file around they have to delete later. > > > dd is *not* a better tool for this task - that's just false rumors. > > I don't know about "better", but it's the right tool for that job, > affording you > > - unbuffered output (oflag=direct) for when you don't want > to wait for ages after dd has finished while your system > is flushing buffers (or worse, pull the stick/card out > while buffers are not flushed because you think copy is > ready, leading to funny results) > > - progress display (either by sending it an USR1 signal or > by stating "status=progress". > > There's a reason a carpenter's shop has more than one tool, > but hey, if you insist, you can take out a screw with scissors. > And my furniture/carpenter skills mean I have lots of those tools available too, I build green and green style stuff, but the green & green joints are carved by cnc milling machines running code I wrote. Consistent joint fits are an admirable target.
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