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You can use [https://etcher.io/ Etcher], a free software that works on Mac, Windows and Linux, to write the image into the SD-card. There is a really good manual for this at [https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/ this link].+
Latest SD-card image weight around 7 GB compressed and around 16 GB unzipped. It includes all the software you need for your zynthian, properly configured for working out-the-box with the latest official kits.
Latest SD-card image weight around 7 GB compressed and around 16 GB unzipped. It includes all the software you need for your zynthian, properly configured for working out-the-box with the latest official kits.
−After downloading and unzipping the SD-image, you have to write it to a suitable SD-card. You need a good-quality SD-card with a '''minimum size of 32GB'''. You can use a bigger one if you like.
+After downloading, you have to write it to a suitable SD-card. You need a good-quality SD-card with a '''minimum size of 32GB'''. You can use a bigger one if you like, but big SD-card can be more problematic than smaller ones. We don't recommend to go above 64GB.
−If you are a GUI guy, we recommend to use [https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ RPi-Imager] to write the image into the SD-card. The gnome disk tool also works fine, and probably others too. We don't recommend BalenaEtcher anymore because it's causing much trouble lately.
−If you are a terminal guy, ''dd'' or ''pv'' will do the task. Don't forget to ''unmount'' the SD partition before burning and ''sync'' before extracting the card. With root privileges, run something like this:
+If you are a terminal guy, ''dd'' or ''pv'' will do the task. Don't forget to uncompress the file, ''unmount'' the SD partition before burning and ''sync'' before extracting the card. With root privileges. Run something like this:
+ tar -xf zynthianos-last-stable.img.xz
umount /dev/sdc1
umount /dev/sdc1
− pv 2023-08-25-zynthianos-stable-2308.img > /dev/sdc
+ pv zynthianos-last-stable.img.xz.img > /dev/sdc
sync
sync
or if you are a ''sudoer'':
or if you are a ''sudoer'':
+ tar -xf zynthianos-last-stable.img.xz
sudo umount /dev/sdc1
sudo umount /dev/sdc1
− sudo pv 2023-08-25-zynthianos-stable-2308.img > /dev/sdc
+ sudo pv zynthianos-last-stable.img.xz.img > /dev/sdc
sudo sync
sudo sync