It was ownership that xz wsa complaining about. Changed that and ran
again. No errors and xzcat piped to /dev/sdb gives me a bootable card.
More progress.
On 08/10/2014 10:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 08/10/2014 09:46 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> First I dd an SD card:
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/rgm/arm/rsel-minimal.img bs=4096
> conv=notrunc,noerror
>
> Then I ran xz which produced an error:
>
> xz -k rsel-minimal.img
> xz: rsel-minimal.img.xz: Cannot set the file group: Operation not
> permitted
>
> Is this because the sudo made the owner of .img root? Do I ignore
> the error or go back and change the owner of .img?
xz -t rsel-minimal.img.xz
did not report any errors...
>
> I will want to make this .img available to others to download and
> build their own SDcards for booting on Cubieboards.
>
>