With great power comes great responsibility. (Thats why I am a QRPer...)
Ashhar Farhan wrote:
> I am a bit of a n00b with all these software. I just prefer using the
> dd command to burn the sd cards.
> The details of using the dd command are all over the internet.
> - f
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> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 6:00 AM alf <fpdbase@...
> <mailto:fpdbase@...>> wrote:
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>? ? ?Al - WA1CZG wrote:
>? ? ?> Ashhar,
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>? ? ?> I downloaded the image and tried to burn it
>? ? ?> to a 32gb mini card. After I formatted it with the Raspberry
>? ? ?> utility I got a capacity of 31.3GB.
>? ? ?> When I try to burn it I get? message that I need at least
>? ? ?> 31.9GB. I am using a PNY 32GB card.
>? ? ?>
>? ? ?> Is there a different brand of card I need to use?
>? ? ?>
>? ? ?> Thanks.
>? ? ?> Al
>? ? ?>
>? ? ?Hi Al,
>? ? ?????????? I used balenaEtcher to write to a Toshiba 32bit SD card,
>? ? ?runs
>? ? ?fine on my Pi 4, really nice of Ashhar to put the circuit of the
>? ? ?sBitx
>? ? ?as desktop back ground :-)
>? ? ?regards Alf vk2yac
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Hi Ashhar,
???????????????? The dd is sometimes called disk destroyer if you don't
know your machines layout, for example I use dd bs=4M if=image
of=/dev/sd# status=progress && sync, I like to see the progress of the copy.
regards Alf
