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Noob struggling with flashing script - Nooblife - 02-07-2020

It's probably me being a total noob, but i fail to use the flashing script:

Is writing mmcblk0 wrong?

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - Nooblife - 02-07-2020

i figured it out, the answer is: /dev/mmcblk0

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - undo - 02-07-2020

Be always very careful with this. If you put the wrong code in, you will flash your computers hard drive instead of the card!

What I do is run "ls /dev/" when the card is NOT inserted, then I insert the card and run "ls /dev/" again and see how the list changed. (well, actually I run "ls /dev/sd*" because in my system the card is always called something starting with "sd")

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - Veraendert - 02-07-2020

Use lsblk first to show your devices without the sd card. Insert sd card, type lsblk again, the new device is your card.

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - undo - 02-07-2020

Yeah, that is better. I never remember that command, though.

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - bcnaz - 02-12-2020

(02-07-2020, 04:55 AM)Nooblife Wrote: It's probably me being a total noob, but i fail to use the flashing script:

Is writing mmcblk0 wrong?

Much simpler answer to the question, Download Belana Etcher then download newest version of the OS you wish to test.

Etcher will flash it to your SD card with very little effort or "guess work" Then run your SD card in your device.

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - harvey186 - 02-24-2020

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Much simpler answer to the question, Download Belana Etcher then download newest version of the OS you wish to test.

Etcher will flash it to your SD card with very little effort or "guess work" Then run your SD card in your device.
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But what should I flash with etcher. The script loads 2 files. Is etcher able to flash them both on right place ??

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - wibble - 02-24-2020

(02-24-2020, 09:05 AM)harvey186 Wrote: [quote pid='60050' dateline='1581488433']

Much simpler answer to the question, Download Belana Etcher then download newest version of the OS you wish to test.

Etcher will flash it to your SD card with very little effort or "guess work" Then run your SD card in your device.

But what should I flash with etcher. The script loads 2 files. Is etcher able to flash them both on right place ??
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When you run flash-it.sh if you select 'raw' for the sd card to write to it should create an image file sdcard.img that you can then write with Etcher.

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - bcnaz - 02-24-2020

(02-24-2020, 02:09 PM)wibble Wrote:
(02-24-2020, 09:05 AM)harvey186 Wrote: [quote pid='60050' dateline='1581488433']

Much simpler answer to the question, Download Belana Etcher then download newest version of the OS you wish to test.

Etcher will flash it to your SD card with very little effort or "guess work" Then run your SD card in your device.

But what should I flash with etcher. The script loads 2 files. Is etcher able to flash them both on right place ??

When you run flash-it.sh if you select 'raw' for the sd card to write to it should create an image file sdcard.img that you can then write with Etcher.
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The larger file is the actual OS, the small one is for doing a more complicated process.

Using Balena Etcher all you need is the actual OS for your installation.

RE: Noob struggling with flashing script - noeman5 - 04-09-2020

I've used Balena Etcher for every other OS for the PinePhone, but not for Sailfish. I'll give it a try when I get home. It was super easy for Manjaro, UB Ports, Lune and PostMarket OS, so I hope it will be for Sailfish as well.