noobie question regarding install

[HLing]

You need bmap-tools installed.
The usage is then basically:

Code:

bmaptool copy <path_to_image_file> <block_device_to_flash>

As @wibble has noted it will take into account regions inside the image file which are unused/full of zeros and skips them when flashing the image,
thus both speeding up the flashing and reducing the wear on the flash storage by not wasting unnecessary write cycles.

So...I did install the bmap tools onto my laptop.   Are you saying instead of using the large image file that ends in .gz one could just use the small image file that ends in .bmap ?!!