Feral Process: Burning Images

Burning Images

For SBC using SD cards (all of them?). Use dd. On the mac, it's nicer to use pv (pipe viewer) because it gives you feedback on the progress.

Note: There are certain weird images (android on banana pi which I never got to work anyway) that apparently cannot be written this way. Use a windows machine and PhoenixCard instead.

Basic procedure:
- insert card
- figure out which disk it is
- unmount it
- write using pv or dd
- eject

diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX
pv < SOURCE > DEST

diskutil eject /dev/diskX

Alternate syntax:

pv < /dev/sda > /dev/sdb

dd if=IMAGEFILE| pv | sudo dd of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m