Document how to clone diet-raspbian image to more microSD cards

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geerlingguy commented 9 years ago

How to pop the trim microSD card into a Mac, build an image from it, and compress that image, then clone that image to new cards with dd.

geerlingguy commented 9 years ago

Pop the microSD card into your Mac's card reader.
Locate the card: $ diskutil list (should be something like /dev/disk3).
Make an image of the card: $ sudo dd if=/dev/disk3 of=~/Desktop/diet-raspbian.dmg

TODO:

Does this copy the entire image (e.g. all 8GB of an 8GB card, even if 7GB are free space?)?
Copying back to a new card—any speedup opportunities?