

If you want to try one of these systems without installing it on your phone’s internal storage, you can use Etcher to flash it to a memory card. In the PinePhone review, we saw that there are at least 18 operating systems that support it already.
Flash os images to sd cards how to#
We also showed how to setup openSUSE on the Raspberry Pi 4, in that how-to we recommend balenaEtcher to flash the openSUSE image to the memory card. Now they can be flashed to the memory card using Etcher, eliminating the need for NOOBS. Images of this operating system are available on its downloads page. Remember Raspbian? ( Debian for Raspberry Pi) It has been renamed to Raspberry Pi OS. What can I do with Etcher?īalenaEtcher can be used for many purposes. Previously there was no tool that fitted all of their needs, so they built Etcher, which is simple for end users and works and looks the same on Linux, Windows and macOS. To teach their clients how to flash their images, they used to provide a how-to for each of the systems (Linux, Windows and macOS), each of them composed of several manual and error-prone steps. The Balena team created the Etcher software to solve the complexity of writing OS images to removable media, such as SD cards and USB flash drives. Balena is known not only for Etcher, but for several other products as well such as openBalena, balenaOS, balenaEngine and more.

Balena is the name of both a set of open source tools for managing connected IoT (Internet of Things) devices, and the company who develops those tools and offer cloud infrastructure for connecting those devices.
