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Yes you can use dd (or cp or cat) for this purpose, but double-check and triple-check that you know what you are doing, and that everything is exactly as it should be before you press the Enter key.

dd is sometimes nicknamed 'data destroyer'. So if you tell them to wipe the family pictures. But these three tools are risky, when used to clone, to write to a mass storage device, because they do what you tell them to do without questions. You can also use cp or cat for the same purpose. If the image is compressed, extract it before cloning, or use a tool that can extract and clone. Install an image to Rasperry Pi by cloning (sometimes called flashing, burning, restoring). If you replace it with the device name of your hard drive, your hard drive will be overwritten. Make absolutely sure the device name is that of the SD-card.

Resizing can be done from the Pi itself in the raspi-config program that starts automatically the first time you boot.īe careful. It may be quite a while, especially over usb2. Or with improvements suggested by other users: sudo dd if=/home/username/Downloads/-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdc status=progress bs=4MĪnd wait for the command to return. Type the following (mutatis mutandis): sudo dd if=/home/username/Downloads/-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdc I saw the date of /dev/sdc change and thus decided that that was the one.įind the place of the unzipped image, which was /home/username/Downloads/-wheezy-raspbian.img for me. For instance I typed ls -la /dev/sd* before and after plugging in the sd-card.

No need to install anything.įind the name of the device of the plugged in SD-card. You can do it from the command line as well.