Sup Jow Forums. I was wondering how to turn a SD card into a bootable SD card so I can install a Linux distro such as Devuan for example. How do I go about doing that? There's some documentation I found about but it talks about how to boot a OS from the SD card rather than installing an OS from it through something similar to a LiveCD/USB type deal.
Turning SD cards into bootable devices
Noah Murphy
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Zachary Price
literally just use DD
Leo Turner
Just use USB like a real man.
Xavier Hughes
I don't have a USB, that's why I made the thread.
Nicholas Watson
Tyler Robinson
OP this is easy as fuck, are you fucking serious? literally how you boot a cherry pie
Jace Johnson
Texting from mobile. Also I'm new to a lot of this so I'm not the most tech literate.
Logan King
A typical 64gb flash drive is $15 USD user.
Austin Smith
You would flash the sdcard just as a usb with your OS of choice. Download rufus and your image file and roast the baby to the SD.
Benjamin Wood
well I take it you are a cuck, which means you use windows. you need to install etcher and download the latest (and greatest) Gentoo release. you use etcher to write the Gentoo .iso to the SD card it's easy as fuck it's like 3 buttons and basically winjeet-proof
Blake Nelson
Some devices don't let you boot from SD cards btw just saying
Angel Martinez
DD devuan iso image to sd card
Boot to sd card from computer bios
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Nathaniel Clark
It's exactly the same way as you do with a flashdrive just cat gahnoo-loonix_x86_64.iso > /dev/sdX && sync
John Butler
A lot of BIOSs/UEFIs don't support directly booting from SD cards
If you have a thinkpad that is coreboot compatible you can enable it when you build the bios image by customizing seabios
or you could chain load it using grub and Linux + an initrd that has the SD card shit built in then mount it like a normal rootfs from there
Anthony Jenkins
I USE MEMORY CARD READER THEN USED RUFUS /UEFI SOFTWARE TO BOOT KALI, UBUNTU, TAILS AND MINT
Evan Cooper
wut
dd if=(file) of=device bs=1M;sync
Carson Lopez
Why not just using cat? much easier to type, also uses the optimal blocksize by default (supposedly)
Camden Harris
I don’t know, dd has always been my frien.
Andrew Reyes
> Why not just using cat?
Does not always works with devices.
Lucas Martinez
what kind of devices?
has always worked for me
Justin Young
I worked with touchscreen once. Playing back the recorded gesture into the device does not work with cat.
Austin Roberts
Fair enough, but a flash drive isn't a touchscreen...
Zachary Jenkins
Cherry pie.
Parker Perez
It's easier when you don't have to remember the type of a device. Cat for terminal and files, dd for devices. That way, it always works.
Joshua Jackson
There's always USB adapters for flash memory cards. Its like $10, I don't know if that would work for booting but I don't see why not.
Luke Anderson
Yeah, but need to guess the blocksize, and typing all those if= and =of and bs= is more tiring than cat file > dev, since I don't work with those touchscreen devices whatever they are I don't have that problem. I guess I it would be trivial to write a script to frontend dd in a simple $0 $1 $2 fashion and automatize the idea l blocksize, but redirecting cat just works so there's no point on it.