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I need to provision several SD cards with an identical stack. It will include Raspbian, Chromium, unclutter, etc.

Once I've provisioned the first SD card by downloading and installing all of this software, is there a recommended method for cloning the card's contents on to the other cards, so I don't have to go through the download and install process for every card? I'm using a Mac to provision the cards.

Much thanks for any recommendations!

Read a image with Win32DiskImager and use the same
software to burn it again.

On Linux use dd or dcfldd , the latter supports writing to
multiple cards at once !


You might want to resize your partitions beforehand
since most SD cards are not exactly as big as advertised ,
and vary in their usable capacity (even from the same manufacturer) .
Win32DiskImager can't cope with a single byte difference between cards

Use GParted on a Live CD or on Linux directly to solve this.

ghans

Can anyone recommend a solution that would work on Mac OS?

devgrinder wrote:Can anyone recommend a solution that would work on Mac OS?

You can write to sdcards using dd on the mac as far as I know. Ideally though you'd be best set up being able to make changes and then copy to your cards. You can most easily chroot and run things like apt-get and whatever if you working on code that is supported by the system you are working with, so that would argue for doing this directly on a pi.

devgrinder wrote:Can anyone recommend a solution that would work on Mac OS?

http://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/ra ... e-pi-baker

dd should work on Mac OS.


ghans

ghans wrote:dd should work on Mac OS.


ghans

It does! It works perfectly.

Where would a Mac user get dcfldd from ? Homebrew ?

ghans