

Linuxġ.) The following commands will need to be executed as root. If you are working with a Technologic Systems‘ product, please be sure to also see the product manual for specific instructions for that device. Jokingly, ‘dd’ stands for “disk destroyer” or “delete data”, so take care! Home We’ll be looking at how to write to an entire disk and/or a specific partition on that disk using the dd command, a common utility found in most unix systems for low-level operations on hard disks. Read through it first to make sure you have a basic, core understanding of the instructions given, and then apply them to your situation.

While the following guide talks about our products, it can be applied generically. The question “How do I write a TS Image to an SD card under Linux / Mac OSX / Windows?” comes up quite a bit when dealing with embedded systems or any situation where you want to make an exact, bit-by-bit copy of a removable storage card or disk.
