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balena-io / etcher

Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
https://etcher.io/
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It's not Ecthing #3221

Open Robertpuggle opened 4 years ago

Robertpuggle commented 4 years ago

my SD card for my Raspberry Pi 3 the exe didn't etched my img In the SD card and the card was 16G

limegreendragon commented 4 years ago

It is easier to use terminal to write it to the SD card

First unmount the SD card:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

(the SD card I used was described as disk 2 - can check using line: diskutil list it will be the one referred to as an external disk)

Next find the file path for the img file and make a note of it

Run code

_sudo dd bs=1m if=file_path_to_gohere.img of=/dev/disk2; sync

If on a linux machine will need to change bs=1M, if using a mac use 1m

Hope this helps!

limegreendragon commented 4 years ago

Sorry forgot to add:

To eject SD card run:

sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdiskN

lurch commented 4 years ago

It is easier to use terminal to write it to the SD card

"Easier" for one person is "more difficult" for another person - the trickiness with using dd was exactly why Etcher was developed in the first place :wink:

thundron commented 4 years ago

@Robertpuggle could you be a bit more specific about the version number and the error message you saw + at what point of the process you saw it?