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Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: Coldblackice on September 26, 2023, 01:48:43 AM

Title: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: Coldblackice on September 26, 2023, 01:48:43 AM
Is there an "rpi-imager" CLI that I can use via TinyCore/PiCore?

Looking at the official https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager (https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager), it appears it's only for Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora. TIA
Title: Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: Juanito on September 26, 2023, 02:42:50 AM
There's this for CorePure64: http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86_64/tcz/rpi-imager.tcz.info
Title: Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: Coldblackice on September 26, 2023, 07:03:11 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.
Title: Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: Juanito on September 26, 2023, 07:07:32 AM
The app depends on qt-5.x, which is very large and not as yet available for piCore.
Title: Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: Paul_123 on September 26, 2023, 08:51:53 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.

Title: Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: patrikg on September 26, 2023, 09:33:54 AM
@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.
Title: Re: Any "rpi-imager" CLI that works on TinyCore / PiCore?
Post by: mocore on September 30, 2023, 11:13:53 AM
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 (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