Writing OS images to SD cards

[towlerg]

@PrintedWeezl

I also mentioned Win32DiskImager but he wants to flash sd cards with his pi.

No I want to flash cards on Windows, didn't even know you could flash cards on Pi. But I suppose it's can run Linux, so why not.

Thanks all for input, I'll give your suggestions a go.

[PrintedWeezl]

@towlerg

No I want to flash cards on Windows, didn't even know you could flash cards on Pi.

@PrintedWeezl

On which os are you writing the images?
For windows there is a tool with the name win32diskimager .

@towlerg

Octopi (and perhaps Noobs just to have a play while waiting for printer to arrive).

[rkarlsba]

on modern operating systems like linux and macos, there's a command, dd, that does this and isn't big

root@yellow-pi:~# ls -lh $( which dd )
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62K Feb 28 2019 /bin/dd

[gdachs]

I don't use a single Raspberry PI. I use 2 Odroid C2s, an Odroid HC1 with two Docker containers with OctoPrint instances, and I am testing currently an older Intel NUC with a Core i3. Raspberry PIs are too slow, even the RPi 4.

And I use dd like somebody else mentioned already. As it is already installed, why not use it?