I got tired of chasing balenaEtcher software upgrades and went looking for a solution. I migrated from command line dd to my first imaging software application Etcher, which is now called balenaEtcher, after the company was acquired. Instead, it lets us read from and write to block devices - for example, physical hard drives. It's not used to copy individual files like cp. The Unix command dd (disk destroyer ), provides bit copying of raw data from one source to another. I confess I have never used NOOBs. I started out ten years ago doing O/S installs for Raspberry Pi using the dd command. I did locate a repository at a github link. I failed to find any reference to NOOBs at the official Raspberry Pi OS download site. You won’t need network access, and you won’t need to download any special imaging software. Just head to the downloads page, grab a copy of the NOOBS zip file, and unpack it onto a freshly formatted 4GB (or larger) SD card. NOOBS is a way to make setting up a Raspberry Pi for the first time much, much easier (so it is said). The opening screen indicates NOOBs is on the SD card. Here is a collection of short video clips strung together of the Pi booting, using the vendor SD card. We are going to take a slight detour to find out what is on the card before proceeding with the self styled O/S load. In fairness to the product vendor, I felt it was important to not just blown away the card content and proceeded with my application. The objective is to provide product feedback. RoadTests Reviews are sponsored by vendors. On discovering the SD card provided in the kit had content on it, I thought it was prudent to check it out before I wiped the card with my own O/S installation. My initial focus for this RoadTest was to get on with an operating system (O/S) install on the Pi so I could use the camera. The project objective is to pair a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with a camera, assemble it on a HO scale model railroad car with a power source and stream or record video of the train in motion. The blog posts will serve as the resources for assembling the RoadTest Review document. Comments and questions to the blog posts are welcomed and encouraged. The blog posts will explore different aspects of the product while attempting to engage the E14 Community members. Welcome to the fourth of six blog posts in support of the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W Roadtest.
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