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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, 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.
+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. Please, use SD-cards from trusted sources and well-known brands and models. Sandisk Extreme & Pro are known to work fine. Samsung SD-cards also are good candidates. Kingston are more prone to fail.
−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 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 uncompress the file, ''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: