One advantage I saw was Balena Etcher can use the compressed file
to convert and write to
the disk. Was handy for me on my Linux. I also have used
unetbootin to write the Raspberry os
to the micro SD card.
Again choices we have choices.
Marty kd8bj
On 6/30/20 10:53 PM, John Nicholas
wrote:
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So what is the difference between dd on Linux and Balena Etcher?
W3DJS recommends Balena Etcher. ? Is this because dd
only works on Linux and he is working with people working on Mac
or PC?
JN
On Jun 30, 2020, at 8:34 PM, John D Hays -
K7VE <
john@...> wrote:
Just use?dd?on Linux to copy
the .img file to the SD card.?
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020,
18:30 Bob Knight <
bob@...>
wrote:
It's executable as-is.
"./balenaEtcher-1.5.100-x64.AppImage"
Takes a while to come up as it checks for updates and
what not.
Thanks,
Bob
KI5EJI
On 6/30/20 7:25 PM, chuck gelm wrote:
> I got: '
> Etcher for Linux x64 (64-bit) (AppImage)
>? ? ? ?
> Linux
>? ? ? ?
> x64
>?
>?
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 gelmce gelmce??? 91645506 Jun 22
09:18??
> balenaEtcher-1.5.100-x64.AppImage
> drwxr-xr-x 2 gelmce gelmce??????? 4096 Jun 23
21:23 'HamPi v1.0 by W3DJS'
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gelmce gelmce??? 91128472 Jun 30
21:05?
> balena-etcher-electron-1.5.100-linux-x64.zip
>?
>? ?I do not know how to use or install
'balenaEtcher-1.5.100-x64.AppImage'.
>?
> I have been using linux since 1993 and have never
seen an '.AppImage'?
> file before.
>?
> Help!
>?
> Chuck
>?
>?
>?
