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PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:36:41 +0200,
real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) declaimed the
following:

>The 2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch-lite.img file I use to create RasPi boot
>SD cards from is an NDIF disk image.
>
 Crawling around the official site (I normally just grab the NOOBS full
image)

 Both are available as direct ZIP files, or as Torrent (which I've never
used). If you fetched via Torrent, the format may be influenced by the
client you used -- Firefox on Win10 is showing ".zip.torrent" if I click on
the torrent link.

>Can I create one of these from an SD boot card on which I have installed
>updates and additional configuration, to make it easier to create new
>boot cards from?
>
 A Google search for NDIF seems to imply that it is a deprecated
Apple-specific format (replaced by UDIF).

 On Windows, if one has /identical spec/batch/ SD cards, I'd probably
use Win32DiskImager to create an .IMG file from a configured SD card, then
change cards and use Win32DiskImager to write the IMG file to the new
cards. Note that minor differences between cards that claim to be the same
size/speed can cause the imager program to fail (if one card reserves a few
MB more for wear-leveling space the usable size becomes smaller than the
IMG file one started with)


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