Etcher not working for latest release

[anon9173994]

Moderation Note: Moved from The September release and ARM has arrived

I have a problem burning an iso with balenaEtcher 1.5.108.

Tested 2 times. I will try with another program. Maybe a Linux computer too.

[fbodymechanic]

Please check this out here:

[ARM] How to install EndeavourOS Arm Part one

Installing EndeavourOS Arm on a SBC (Single Board Computer) is a two step process. First I think we need to discuss the EnOS philosophy towards Arm. I think this will clear up a lot of confusion. Our process does not have a ISO image with a complete OS and Desktop Environment that you just use etcher to transfer it to a uSD and voila you have a working system. We don’t do that because we would need to have ISOs for every SBC and Desktop Environment combination we choose to support. An imag…

There’s no iso to burn, etcher, imager, etc won’t be used.

[pierrep56]

@anon9173994

I have a problem burning an iso with balenaEtcher 1.5.108.

If you try to burn the regular release, then check the file you have downloaded. I have just burn EndeavourOS on a USB stick with Balena-Etcher without any issue.
If you mean the ARM release, then see @fbodymechanic reply above.

[anon9173994]

I mean the regular release. The one before I get to work with balenaEtcher. 2020-07-16. There’s just something wrong here. Tests around a bit with programs.

[dalto]

Can you explain a bit more about what the issue is?

In other words, is the issue that you can’t use etcher to put the latest release on an ISO or is the issue that after installing the latest release, you can’t use etcher?

If it helps, both things work fine in my testing.

[anon9173994]

I got error on rufus too

Tested with another USB memory. I actually do not know what goes wrong.

Gonna check it out a little better. I have burned many USB sticks in my days. Sometimes it goes wrong.

[dalto]

OK, so you are on Windows and trying to write the ISO to a USB drive to install it?

Have you tried downloading it again to make sure the download isn’t corrupt? Do the checksums match?

[anon9173994]

I’m trying to burn in Windows. Maybe that’s wrong?

I’ll check the ISO file. May have to download it again!

[dalto]

@anon9173994

I’m trying to burn in Windows. Maybe that’s wrong?

Of course it isn’t wrong…how else would you remove Windows…

[anon9173994]

It was solved with 1.5.109 BalenaEtcher. Had 1.5.108 before.

Thanks to everyone for the help!

[joekamprad]

rufus will only work in dd mode, if it creates filesystem and format disk it can not work, ISO is already an image working out of the box needs copy at once to the device…
and etcher is working here without issue:

[anon9173994]

I probably burned in ISO mode with Rufus if I remember correctly. Thanks, now I know!

[anon9173994]

I’m up:

Live for now. Tests if everything works!

[BONK]

The best way to test if everything is working is to install into a VM. But have fun experimenting!

[Kresimir]

I’ll just leave a link to my epic rant about Etcher here:

Heads up on Etcher

Frankly, the whole concept of Balena Etcher is utterly absurd to me. It’s a program that writes image files to drives. That’s all it does. That is its main, and only, purpose: to write image files to drives. The size of that simple, single purpose program, however, is 223.5 MiB (at least the version in Manjaro repos). 223.5 MiB! dd does exactly the same thing, plus much more. The size of dd is 75 KiB, and that’s dd from the GNU Utils, i.e. one of the most bloated versions of dd i…

Take it for what it’s worth. It’s not entirely on topic, but it’s also not entirely off topic

[joekamprad]

@Kresimir

Take it for what it’s worth. It’s not entirely on topic, but it’s also not entirely off topic

keybreak reacted with keybreak reacted with

I would go further:

Etcher

Warning! we do not recommend using etcher anymore as there are privacy concerns, etcher is Anonymously reporting errors and usage information. It is not clear if this is done also if you do not validate that you agree with it.

https://endeavouros.com/docs/installation/create-install-media-usb-stick/

but who cares on our wiki?

[keybreak]

@joekamprad

I would go further:

Music to my ears

[ricklinux]

Well i know some people don’t like Etcher but i use it even though it’s not recommended because for me it works. I never have any issues with it. I just want you all to know my feelings are hurt! Now everyone knows. I’m so dissappointed.

[fbodymechanic]

@Kresimir

Take it for what it’s worth. It’s not entirely on topic, but it’s also not entirely off topic

@joekamprad

I would go further:

Etcher

Warning! we do not recommend using etcher anymore as there are privacy concerns, etcher is Anonymously reporting errors and usage information. It is not clear if this is done also if you do not validate that you agree with it.

but who cares on our wiki?

I know I stopped using etcher a while ago. I’ve since migrated to popsicle and it works simple and without issue so far.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/popsicle-git/

[anon9173994]

Has anyone tested Ventoy?

Ventoy

Starting to get tired of burning ISO files. Better to have everyone on a USB stick.

I have a fast and large USB memory that would fit well with that. A little luxurious perhaps.