Preparing RasPi SD card for SLES with a Windows PC

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES for Raspberry Pi
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Hello,

assuming that not everybody has a Linux/Mac workstation or laptop where s/he can run the “xz -cd IMAGE | dd of=/dev/SDCARDDEV bs=4096” command described on http://tinyurl.com/slespi, what would be the appropriate commands / tools to prepare a new SD card image with SLES with a Windows PC?

Is it recommended to use the WSL of Windows 10 for that, or are there other possibilities?

Regards,
Hannes

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On 04/01/17 10:04, hkuehnemund wrote:
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assuming that not everybody has a Linux/Mac workstation or laptop where
s/he can run the “xz -cd IMAGE | dd of=/dev/SDCARDDEV bs=4096” command
described on http://tinyurl.com/slespi, what would be the appropriate
commands / tools to prepare a new SD card image with SLES with a Windows
PC?

Is it recommended to use the WSL of Windows 10 for that, or are there
other possibilities?[/color]

With Windows, once you have extracted the image from the .xz file
(perhaps using 7-Zip) I would use the third-party Win32DiskImager
utility as per the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s own installation guide[1].

HTH.

[1]
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/windows.md

Simon
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Thanks Simon,

this is what I found as well, it describes the process pretty well: https://www.suse.com/documentation/suse-best-practices/sles-rpi-quick/data/sles-rpi-quick.html#sec_rpi_installation

Unfortunately, this excellent document is not available on http://tinyurl.com/slespi. Only the generic SUSE documentation is linked from there. Let me ask the team to have a look and change that accordingly.

Regards,
Hannes

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On 09/01/17 08:54, hkuehnemund wrote:
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this is what I found as well, it describes the process pretty well:
https://www.suse.com/documentation/suse-best-practices/sles-rpi-quick/data/sles-rpi-quick.html#sec_rpi_installation[/color]

Thanks - I hadn’t come across Easy 7-Zip.
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Unfortunately, this excellent document is not available on
http://tinyurl.com/slespi. Only the generic SUSE documentation is linked
from there. Let me ask the team to have a look and change that
accordingly.[/color]

That would be useful, or perhaps the above page should just have a link
to your first URL instead of assuming Linux? I guess we’ll let the
documentation decide.

Thanks.

Simon
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