Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?
Hi.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> I have just assembled a [Teres machine] to learn how to set it up from the instructions on http://box.redpill.dk/ mentioned before on this list.
>
> I run into my ignorance already at instruction 2: "Locate device name of your microSD card".
>
> It turns out when I use completion with ls /dev/disk/by-id/ that my new USB microSD card reader says that my micro SD card has two names:
>
> usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0
It has one name. This one, to be exact.
> usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0-part1
And this is the first partition of said device.
> This ambiguity becomes problematic when I try instruction 4) "Decompress and copy image onto card" with "Fast method" b):
>
> sudo sh -c 'zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz > /dev/disk/by-id/my-sd-card'
Ugh. Why run zcat as root if you can avoid it:
zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz | sudo tee \
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0\:0 > /dev/null
Reco
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