Making a microSDHC
The image can be directly written to a microSDHC using a utility like dd
, but we prefer ddrescue
(from the gddrescue, for example:
sudo apt-get install gddrescue xz-utils unxz ubuntu-mate-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img.xz sudo ddrescue -D --force ubuntu-mate-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img /dev/sdx
The microSDHC may be presented on any /dev/sdX
so use the command lsblk
to check.
If you prefer a graphical tool we recommend using GNOME Disks and the Restore Disk Image… option, which natively supports XZ compressed images.
sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility