Really? Just works for me - one dialog saying "Making changes, are you sure" and that's it.
Even if the keyboard did have that, you would still need software to drive it - which is where Etcher comes in.
Really? Just works for me - one dialog saying "Making changes, are you sure" and that's it.
Just flashed a USB thumb drive with Raspbian Buster Desktop Full (for my RPi3B+), using Balena Etcher.... on a W10 laptop
I get in once on Win10, as expected.jcyr wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:53 pmYou need privilege to delete or add partitions to a device under Windows 10. The Windows 10 UAC prompt tells you that Balena is attempting such a privileged operation. Something you'd probably want to be aware of.
A popular Windows app, CCleaner, which I've deleted due to its recent introduction of obnoxious promotional pop-ups, by default installs a privileged Windows background service to get around the UAC prompt. You can disable it, but it is installed by default. Bad behavior as far as I'm concerned. Using the privilege of the installer to gain application privilege is something the user should be made aware of, not silently installed by default.
I'm surprised that Windows 10 users would not be seeing the UAC prompt when writing Raspian to an SD card.
Does this also extract the image from its compressed zip and warn you if you've specified the wrong drive? (Etcher actually chooses for you, so that's unlikely)
No. This has nothing to do with Microsoft. There is an "advert" for their balenaSound project guide ("Turn your old speakers or Hi-Fi into Bluetooth receivers with a Raspberry Pi and this step-by-step guide") when you're writing an image.
I've not seen that one
https://i.imgur.com/wugNSaS.png is the balenaSound advert.
Yeah. If balena want to advertise their own products or guides which are Pi related then I don't have a problem with it. I'd quickly change my mind if it turned into the usual clickbait adverts though.
Well, I do have an old(er) version of Etcher installed.
If you are familiar with the vast range of command line tools and shell commands available they are always going to be faster and more flexible. However, dd will happily do whatever you tell it to, without all the hand holding. Almost everyone who has mucked about with Unix or Linux has a sad "rm -rf" story, especially if you decided to get cute with "find" and went walking symbolic links. (Hummm thats taking a long time, is never a happy making thought after issuing such a command)
Quite possibly but I don't see that being a problem. 100MB is pretty much 'nothing' in the grand scheme of things.
Correct.
I just use cp, it is so so simple.bjtheone wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:07 pmEtcher is a easy to use tool, with a GUI, some handholding, and data validation. Plus it is easily installed on Windows and MacOs. Totally makes sense to recommend it to new folks. If you are comfortable with Linux, you likely did not need to ask since the easily found instructions make sense.
Can you give a bit more onfo on your so simple way to burn an SD card with cp?I just use cp, it is so so simple.
Not following your point in the first paragraph. You could easily buy a blank SD card and install NOOBS on it (there are many many many tutorials on how to do it and most of them are even correct), or could follow one of the command line Linux tutorials (its not like it is a lot of commands (download, unzip, dd) if you already have a Linux box.Moonmarch wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:53 amIf anyone using the RPI computer does not know how to install OS images without using Etcher,\ then you will have no choice other than to purchase a SD card that includes NOOBS, if you are using RPI4B computer you will need NOOBS version 3.2 to install Raspbian Buster or other supported OS, other versions of NOOBS will be compatible with the previous version of RPI computers.
If you have a SD card reader connected to the RPI computer you can write your own OS images there are several approaches to writing OS images to SD cards which requires more preparation or reading more guides in comparison to only using Etcher, if you need Etcher then you have no choice other than to use Etcher.