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Shock-OS opened this issue Apr 25, 2025 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #2775
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Simple USB Flasher (APT package) #2772

Shock-OS opened this issue Apr 25, 2025 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #2775
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@Shock-OS
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What is the name of the app?

Simple USB Flasher

Where is the app hosted?

Simple USB Flasher GitHub page

About the app

Simple USB Flasher is designed as a Linux-native alternative to other image flashing utilities such as Raspberry Pi Imager or balenaEtcher. It was created out of a need for a simple program that would "just flash" Batocera on a 1 TB SSD, which Raspberry Pi Imager refused to do (likely because it assumed the SSD was an internal drive due to its large size) and balenaEtcher failed to do properly. It used dd under the hood to flash bootable images to block devices, and supports USB sticks, external USB HDDs, external USB SSDs, and SD cards of any size. It has safeguards to prevent flashing the system drive, only detecting drives mounted in /media and /mnt as writable.

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Simple USB Flasher - GitHub Releases page

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@WombleWoo7547
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Simple USB Flasher.zip

There's the app. To test place in the /apps folder and to submit to be finished then... I'm not that sure I'm still learning the OSS systems of this project

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A zipfile was found in the body of an issue comment.
The sha1sum of the zip was: 0bb253c26a1f1b29ba2ddc197200b01dcb11b0c4

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Thank you for your response! I noticed the .zip just had an empty folder in it, am I supposed to add the icons, description, etc and upload the finished .zip here?

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Thank you for your response! I noticed the .zip just had an empty folder in it, am I supposed to add the icons, description, etc and upload the finished .zip here?

ZIP file is empty is because xarchiver on Pi OS has a bug that can appear to have added the files to the archive but it didn't, use a different archiver tool like File Roller or 7-Zip to fix this.

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Shock-OS commented May 2, 2025

Hmm.... I used File Roller and still got just a folder titled 'Simple USB Flasher' with nothing in it. I also tried to extract it on my Linux Mint PC, which uses File Roller by default, and still got the same result.

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