Re: Trying an install to a Raspberry PI5 unit

On 2/7/25 16:47, Zach Metzinger wrote:
> "Copy the image to the microSD card (see Writing an Image File to USB). 
> Plug the microSD card into the Raspberry Pi."

I will note that it might not be obvious to the uninitiated that the .xz 
file should be decompressed before writing it to the memory stick (using 
one of the two methods outlined in the "Writing and Image ..." page).

To decompress this file, use this on FreeBSD:

% xz -d name_of_the_file.img.xz

This will result in a file being created with the name of 
name_of_the_file.img and the original file will be deleted.

One can get creative with pipes to avoid leaving an uncompressed file on 
disk, of course.

--- Zach