Prepare your SD card

Partition the SD card#

Windows 10 Partitioning#

Using built-in GUI ‘Disk Management’ feature#

TODO: Show creating partition using Windows 10 GUI (Disk Management)

Using diskpart#

TODO: Show using TUI tools diskpart from Windows 10/11 command line

Using PowerShell#

TODO: Show creating partitions from PowerShell

Linux (many distros) Partitioning#

GUI#

Using Gnome ‘Disks’ applet

Using command line (CLI)#

Partitioning on the Linux command line

Creating a filesystem on the Linux command line

Mac OS Partitioning#

TODO: Add info on partitioning external storage on MacOS

Copy the tarball contents to ‘boot’ partition#

Tarball extract on Windows 10#

You will need to install a program such a 7-zip

TODO: Add info in installing 7-zip on Windows 10

Tarball extract on Linux (many distros)#

Copy install tarball to boot partition using GUI file manager

Using CLI commands#

Assuming you have mounted your new boot partition on /mnt you can (as root) do:

tar -C /mnt -xzf /path/to/install-tarball.tar.gz

Tarball extract on Mac OS#

TODO: Add tarball extraction on MacOS