C was able to belt out 3 cards at a time, what a legend! D, the most powerful managed only 2 cards.curious! D: Lenovo X220 Core i5 2.4Ghz with 8Gb of RAMĪ and B could only manage one image at a time, but it helped keep things moving along.C: Dell Studio 1737 Quad Core 2.4Ghz with 4GB of RAM.B: Lenovo X61 Dual Core 2Ghz with 4GB of RAM.A: Dell 1520 Intel Celeron with 2GB of RAM.I already had the hackpool image on each machine so I grabbed a handful of card readers and SD cards and proceeded to attach them all. So I used dcfldd to write multiple cards. But dear reader you're probably thinking 'Les you fool, you should of used dd to write the images' Well yeah I could of but I can only write one card at a time, and time was against me. To install open a terminal and type sudo apt-get update I used a number of debian based distributions (Crunchbang, Linux Mint and Ubuntu) on my various machines but all used the same piece of software which was dcfldd With the hardware sorted it's time to get the software. Well dear reader, you take a trip to poundland and buy lots of these.īuy more than what you need as a few may fail. So what do you do if you need to create a bunch of SD cards in a rush? You've probably built up quite a stash of kit, including around 20 Raspberry Pi. If you are like me then you probably host a lot of Raspberry Pi themed events.
