USBImager
USBImager is a really simple GUI application that writes disk images to SD cards or USB drives. It also can be used to create SD card backups. Available platforms: Windows, MacOSX and Linux. It’s interface is as simple as it gets, totally bloat-free.
Steps
Step 1 - Insert SD card
- Insert SD card into PC.
Step 2 - Ignore all warnings
Danger
Depending on software loaded on your PC, you may be get a series of messages when you plug in your SD card.
Burn piCorePlayer onto a SD card
Using Win32 Disk Imager
This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely Arm development projects (Android, Ubuntu on Arm, etc).
Steps
Step 1
- Insert SD card into PC.
Step 2
- Click [Cancel] if prompted to format disk.
Danger
Never format the SD card even if prompted.
Using dd command
Step 1
Danger
Make sure you know what your doing here. dd can write to any device and wipe out your hard disk in a second!
Depending on your system, finding the card device can use different tools.
Use lsblk or blkid to identify your device. Typically /dev/sd? or /dev/mmcblk?.
Run the command before and after inserting SD card.
SD card
pCP Team
3 April 2021
pCP 7.0.0
Components
SD card
What SD card do you need for piCorePlayer?
Recommendation
- Get the smallest SD card available, depending on price.
- Invest in quality known brand SD cards from reliable suppliers.
- Standard speed SD cards are all that is really required.
- No need for industrial quality SD cards.
piCorePlayer is very small
At the time of writing, piCorePlayer’s initial image contains 2 x 64MB partitions, so the total size is 128MB. That’s very small for Linux distribution and audio player software.
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