11-30-2023, 05:34 PM
@japumpy
I agree with the "use the Raspberry Pi Imager" sentiment because that's taking the path of least resistance.
If you absolutely need to use Balena Etcher, dd, or any other program that merely flashes a system image to a uSD card, SSD, or whatever, then I suggest you check my earlier thread HowTo: Install moOde without ...."
As an additional point, however, I think you should strongly consider *not* flashing moOde to your SSD. Instead, flash it to a modest capacity uSD card (8GB to 16GB works handily).
My reason is simple: You want to treat the SSD strictly as a data disk, just as most NAS software would.
Occasionally one has to reflash the boot and root file systems, either because something bad happened to the OS or because the moOde update process can't always be accomplished entirely from within a running moOde player. (Who knows. You might, *cough*, even want to try different players for fun.)
This reflashing will wipe out everything on the system disk, including those gigabytes of music tracks if they've been added to it.
Regards,
Kent
I agree with the "use the Raspberry Pi Imager" sentiment because that's taking the path of least resistance.
If you absolutely need to use Balena Etcher, dd, or any other program that merely flashes a system image to a uSD card, SSD, or whatever, then I suggest you check my earlier thread HowTo: Install moOde without ...."
As an additional point, however, I think you should strongly consider *not* flashing moOde to your SSD. Instead, flash it to a modest capacity uSD card (8GB to 16GB works handily).
My reason is simple: You want to treat the SSD strictly as a data disk, just as most NAS software would.
Occasionally one has to reflash the boot and root file systems, either because something bad happened to the OS or because the moOde update process can't always be accomplished entirely from within a running moOde player. (Who knows. You might, *cough*, even want to try different players for fun.)
This reflashing will wipe out everything on the system disk, including those gigabytes of music tracks if they've been added to it.
Regards,
Kent
