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Official Homebridge Raspberry Pi Image based on Raspberry Pi OS Lite.
http://homebridge.io
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Document the trivial dd alternative when creating an SD image to avoid Etcher #42

Closed honeywelluser closed 3 years ago

honeywelluser commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe:

I didn’t trust giving unknown to me 3rd party software elevated rights to copy your img onto an SD card

Describe the solution you'd like:

Include the simple dd command alternative to Etcher

Describe alternatives you've considered:

sudo dd if=Raspbian-Homebridge.img of=/dev/disk4 (where 4 is the appropriate device)

Additional context:

Agreed, I have to use elevated rights for block writes, but I trust dd already installed (on my MacOS). A one line alternative would help cautious users to adopt your great s/w.

It was a tedious Google search to find the alternative, I hope this feature rich request might help others. (Credit to https://www.reddit.com/r/homebridge/comments/dlct5d/homebridge_experience_with_raspberry_pi_zero_wh/ for the solution)

nicolasherrbach commented 3 years ago

+1 I don't want to install another 3rd party application on my computer just to load a few of disk images per year.

oznu commented 3 years ago

A link to the dd instructions is now provided in the README and getting started guide.