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Questions tagged [image]

An image is a file containing the complete data of another medium, e.g. the content of a SD card.

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How can I convert a .img.xz file to .img to transfer it to my SDCard?

I have downloaded Kali v1.1.0 for my Raspberry Pi 2 from here. But the file I must transfer to the SD Card is a .img.xz, not the desired .img one. I have tried to unpack with: $ tar -jxvf kali-1.1.0-rpi2.img.xz bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2…
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Burn ISO file to Flash Drive with Raspbian

Recently my Windows 10 Tablet stuck at booting after update, so I want to burn the WIN10.ISO to flash drive to run repair but don’t know how on Raspbian. The only PC available at hand is my Raspberry PI 3.
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raspberry pi image - decompress and pi shrink in move

I have image of raspberry at 128 GB pendrive ( :'( ) and i don't have free space in this moment at my desktop for 128 GB image. normally i have coppied with steps sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sdc of=pi.img and after sudo pishrink.sh pi.img Is it possible…
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SD card image in OS X - partition can't be seen

When I plug an SD card into my laptop with the Raspbian image on it, only the boot partition shows up in Finder. It took me a while to figure out that two partitions should be seen instead of only one. I even installed MacFuse and tried Linux…
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ptxdist and Rpi

I am trying to create an image for raspberry using ptxdist, but I can not create an image that works. I followed the tutorial "OSELAS.BSP-Pengutronix-Generic-arm-Quickstart.pdf" Step: Compile and install 2014.05.0. Donwload toolchain. Download…
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snort+snorby snapshot image or auto-installer

Is there a snapshot image file (*.img) like 'Raspbian' or 'Pidora' available for the RPi that comes with already installed passive IDS: snorby+snort+pulledpork+barnyard2+apache2+MySQL? Or is there something like 'Autosnort' for an raspberry os…
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Is there a pre-built LAMP server image for the Raspberry Pi?

I'm looking to set up a simple LAMP server. I do know how do this manually. I am not looking for a guide as to how to setup a LAMP server. Is there a pre-built LAMP server image that already has PHP, MYSQL, Apache, etc., already installed? I'd like…
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Developing a replication process

i've been developing a product which i would like to deploy to a few dozen raspi's and the issue is, once i develop a release, typically less than 500mb it is on a 4gb sd card and i can't find a procedure to compress it back to a iso image less than…
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Waveshare Image Display

I'm trying to have a jpeg image I've downloaded displayed on a screen. I'm executing the below code on a raspberry pi that'll display the shapes & image on a waveshare display. For the life of me, I can't figure this one out. For example, I've…
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How can I save my SD card without to make a too big image file?

I used Win32DiskImager. This made about my 8 GB SD card an 8 GB image file. But the partition is only about 50-70 MB big (I'm using RaspBMC)
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When I write a centos 7 img to my sd card why does it only use a tiny amount of space?

I have wrote the img using raspberry pi imager, with dd I even tried formatting the fs to ext4 then writing with dd and in all of my attempts it ends up only allocating 3.7GB. My sd card is 64GB, can anyone help? When the img is written it creates…
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What is the difference between an operating system ISO that can be flashed to a harddrive, vs a copy of an installed OS produced with DD

I have to provision multiple Raspberry Pi's, and I thought I could simply copy one's memory card using dd to a file, and use that file to flash multiple new memory cards. I've tried this multiple times and it hasn't worked. I'm planning on forking…
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How can I workout what encoding is used on this bitmap data?

I have a project that I am working on and it requires me to dynamically generate a png on my website from user input, then send that data to my webserver which ultimately creates a file for use with a propriety software package. I know that the…
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