Mike Easter  wrote:
> bob prohaska wrote:
>>   following the directions at
>>
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.
md
>
> Those directions seem to favor dl/ing and installing the graphical
> Etcher, alternatively using dd.
>

Apologies for the unclarity; I used the section titled
"Copying a zipped image to the SD card"

using the command line

unzip -p 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.zip | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync

(adjusted for local condtions, of course).

The command worked, but took a surprisingly long time, I think it was
over an hour. It finished with no errors, though it did report a one
block discrepancy between in and out.

There's an sd card  copier in the Accessories menu, is that Etcher?

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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