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Provide image as zip #43

Open probonopd opened 5 years ago

probonopd commented 5 years ago

https://repo.distr1.org/distri/jackherer/img/ has filesystem images; however they are in formats that balenaEtcher (the cross-platform quasi-standard tool to write images to USB devices) cannot understand (without the user having to unpack them first). Would it possible to have a .img.zip that balenaEtcher can work on?

stapelberg commented 5 years ago

This is the first time I hear of balenaEtcher :)

While it would of course be possible to provide a .zip file, there are downsides (more disk space and bandwidth necessary for mirrors).

Can you explain why you can not just manually extract one of the existing archive formats? balenaEtcher should take a raw disk image, right?

probonopd commented 5 years ago

Yes, but it means that I have to run gunzip, and this means it takes a lot of time and 8.5 GB of temp space on the hard disk. Inconvenient if you are running your OS e.g., from a Live ISO where you have maybe 1-2 GB of temp space but not 8.5 GB...

mohe2015 commented 4 years ago

You could pipe the output, something like (NOT TESTED) wget -O - https://repo.distr1.org/distri/jackherer/img/distri-qemu-serial.img.gz | gunzip | dd bs=512k of=/dev/null

probonopd commented 4 years ago

Great trick @mohe2015, still I'd like to see this work in Etcher...

mohe2015 commented 4 years ago

@probonopd I'm pretty sure balenaEtcher supports .img.zg images (https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/325) which are provided by https://repo.distr1.org/distri/jackherer/img/. I also just ran it and it tells me that it would burn the file without the .gz extension so I think that's right.