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hypriot / flash

Command line script to flash SD card images of any kind
MIT License
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WSL support? #160

Closed testautomation closed 4 years ago

testautomation commented 4 years ago

Tried running in WSL and got the message This script does not work in WSL. What hinders flash to support WSL? WSL matured a lot in the last years. May be it's worth to give it another chance? :)

StefanScherer commented 4 years ago

Nice try 🤗 From what I know on Windows is that we need real admin access to USB devices to write a SD card. And WSL only runs in normal user context, so this might be the hard problem here.

Actually, the check in flash doesn't work in WSL2, but it doesn't list me any USB devices. I'll add a "fix" to give out a message that WSL2 is also not supported.

testautomation commented 4 years ago

Oh, ok. I was not aware of this.

Since WSL / WSL2 I thought it might be worth to give Windows another chance as my main OS. Seems that its a waste of time and this case is another of endless examples which proves me right 😄