On 2017-11-04, David  wrote:
> Just trying to install Raspbian on an SD card for my brand new Pi 3.
>
> As per the instructions I am using Etcher.
>
> It failed, and I thought that it was unable to unzip the archive because
> it was over 4GB. However I used 7Zip to unzip, and Etcher still reported
> that it was unable to access the image (which was on a network drive).
>
> I've now copied it to a local hard drive (I try and keep everything I can
> on the file server) and it seems to be working.
>
> Anyone any idea why Etcher can't flash from a network drive?

I'm fairly sure I flashed an SD card using Etcher in Windows 10 across
a network last night. I remember it complained that UNC paths weren't
supported but, once I'd mapped the UNC path to a drive letter, it
worked fine.

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