Re: confused, seems to be my normal state
On Wednesday 18 September 2019 08:42:21 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 <gheskett@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_"
Unforch, I read the man page, and the command I used generated all he
files in the local work dir. Messy.
> dd is *not* a better tool for this task - that's just false rumors.
I did wonder about that, ISTR seeing examples that used Zcat for that.
> - Jonas
Thanks Jonas
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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