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Offline Coldblackice

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Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« on: September 26, 2023, 04:48:43 AM »
Is there an "rpi-imager" CLI that I can use via TinyCore/PiCore?

Looking at the official https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager, it appears it's only for Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora. TIA

Offline Juanito

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Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2023, 05:42:50 AM »

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Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2023, 10:03:11 AM »
There's this for CorePure64: http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86_64/tcz/rpi-imager.tcz.info
Hmm I actually came across that but given it was only under the x86/64 repo and none of the ARM archs (correct me if I'm misunderstanding that), I assumed it wouldn't be usable on the Pi. Would that be the case?

I appreciate the response.

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Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2023, 10:07:32 AM »
The app depends on qt-5.x, which is very large and not as yet available for piCore.

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Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2023, 11:51:53 AM »
You mention cli.  If you are running from a cli, there is not much more you need than "dd"

What rpi-imager does is to have a online driven menu system to select images to download and then write.


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Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2023, 12:33:54 PM »
@Paul_123
Yes it does and I think it also config's some files within the boot partition, like
the wifi credential. So you can boot some headless pi's, and get access.

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Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2023, 02:13:53 PM »
Is there an "rpi-imager" CLI that I can use via TinyCore/PiCore?
not afaik

Looking at the official https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager, it appears it's only for Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora. TIA

you could try and download/extract/run it under tc ( searching/adding missing dependencies as requited)
*$ ldd rpi-imager #might provide hints as to whats missing

The app depends on qt-5.x, which is very large and not as yet available for piCore.

or just use dd?  ??? ... and script the requited image config changes

perhaps see also* :
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26366.0.html ~ usbimager - minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB

* all though its a gui not cli ! it dose have pi binary's
« Last Edit: September 30, 2023, 02:16:24 PM by mocore »