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Quick guide/reminder when installing phone images onto disks
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Phone Image Installation Guide

Examples

  • With dd: tar -Oxz image.tar.gz | dd of=... status=progress
  • With pv: pv image.tar.gz | tar -Oxz | dd of=...
    • Not a tar archive: pv image.img.xz | xzcat | dd bs=2M of=/dev/sde1

Important flags

Flag Description
-O Redirect output to stdout
-x Extract file

Formats

Extension Format tar flag
Automatic -a
bz2 bzip2 -j
xz xz -J
gz gzip -z
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