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. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Havens Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 07:03 To: PLUG 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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