On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> wrote:

> xzcat .... | dd of=/dev/sdb ...

thats a odd way to put the image on the card. but should work. I
usually just do xzcat <image> >/dev/<mmc|sd>

An advantage of using dd is that it allow you to see progress by sending it SIGUSR1. Also you can use oflag=direct to bypass the buffer cache.

Regards,
Geert