Roger Bell_West  wrote:
> On 2018-03-25, bob prohaska wrote:
>>What I expected to use was something like
>>sudo unzip -p *.zip | dd of=/dev/sdc
>>but that gives a permissions error, then reports an archive error after the
>>password is entered.
>
> Well, the sudo there only applies to the unzip, not to the dd.
>
> I'd be more inclined to go to a proper root prompt (su -, or sudo su -
> if you have to) and then try the rest of the incantation without the
> sudo. No need for password entry.
>
> Also probably bs=1M on the dd for faster writes.
>
Thanks, those are both good suggestions.
>>The archive is a little over half a gig, which seems
>>reasonable for a sparse image.
>
> That's not any image I've downloaded recently:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 roger roger 1776280071 Mar 14 05:17
2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch.zip
> -rw-r--r-- 1 roger roger  365765304 Mar 14 05:21
2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip
>

Hmm, looks like I'm not getting the entire archive using Chromium. Does
raspberrypi.org have an anonymous ftp site somewhere? I tried
ftp.raspberrypi.org, but couldn't guess the right username to employ.
The traditional "ftp" username was rejected.

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska

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