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Writting the SD card image onto the SD card

The size SD card used to write the image to must be equal or greater than the size of the image. Writing the image on the SD card will take about 15 to 20 minutes for a 16GB image, depending on the transfer speed of the system being used.

Linux

  • Make sure that xz-utils are installed on your machine
    sudo apt-get install xz-utils
  • Unpack the .tar.xz archive
    tar xf xxx.tar.gz
  • Write the image on the SD card
    dd if=xxx.img of=/dev/xxx bs=4M
    sync

Windows

  • Unpack the .tar.xz archive using 7-Zip
  • Install the balenaEtcher app
  • Write the .img file to the SD card using the balenaEtcher app