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