Hi, Mike.
I don’t run OpenELEC, but most people seem to think that 4 GB should be the minimum size SD card used. (Just like Raspbmc.)
The bs=4M tells the dd utility the block size to use when writing. This is basically telling dd to read and write in 4 MB chunks of data, rather than its default of 512 bytes. For modern hardware, increasing the read/write block size will significantly speed up the operation of dd.
Cheers.
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mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 07:03
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Subject: openelec
I've decided to try to run the operating system openelec. I was wondering how big of an SD card I need for it. The instructions for installation are:
dd if=OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-5.0.0-efi.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
Does this mean the sd card needs to be 4 mb in size? Can I even buy one that small? What about swap?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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