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PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
D.M. Procida  wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> To be clear, I don't care much about the format of the disk image, just
> about having *a* disk image or file, created from an SD card, that I can
> then re-use.
>
To my mind a disk *image* includes the things which nmake up its
format, so if you really want a disk image you have its format whether
you like it or not!  :-)

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Chris Green
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