¶ Introduction
A variety of Endless OS installation and deployment procedures require you to flash an image, which refers to the process of taking an image file that you have downloaded and writing it to a storage device. Amongst other cases, image flashing is needed for:
- Creating an Endless USB Stick, by flashing an Endless OS ISO file to USB
- Creating your own Endless Key USB disk
- Installing Endless OS on Raspberry Pi 4 (or similar hobbyist platform) by flashing the relevant image to a SD card
- Flashing a "raw" Endless OS image to USB or additional hard disk, for advanced deployment use cases.
balenaEtcher can be used to flash Endless OS images. One advantage of this option is that it is supported on both macOS and Windows.
Please note that running Endless OS and Endless Key on Apple Mac hardware is not supported. If you are using this procedure on macOS, it is usually because you are creating media to be run on a different type of computer.
¶ Procedure
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Download an Endless OS ISO or image file
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Download and install balenaEtcher
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Plug a USB stick into your computer. All data on this USB stick will be erased.
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Run Etcher
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Click Select image, and select the Endless OS ISO or image file
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Ensure that the correct USB stick is selected. If not, click Change and select the correct USB stick
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Click Flash!
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You may see the following when flashing is complete – just click Ignore
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Remove the USB stick
¶ See also
- Using GNOME Disks to flash an image
- Using Rufus to flash an image on Windows
- Using eos-write-image to flash an image from the terminal
- All Installation topics