User:Maffblaster/Projects/GenPi64

[[Article description::A short set of notes for working with embedded disk images on Linux.}} It is easy to use a more powerful machine in order to operate on disk images.

Download, extract, and mount image
As of the present, the community ran GenPi64 project produces zstd compressed files. In order to actively work with one of these images, a few setup steps are necessary.

Download the image from GenPi64.com:

Extract the image to a work area. Tips this can be in zram, tmpfs, or the generic filesystem.

Follow the extraction by mounting the image using. If everything goes well and there are no other loop devices mounted, the output of the command will be :

Long listing the device will show all available partitions for the loop mounted image. For GenPi64 the output should look like the following:

Finally, create mount points if necessary and mount the partitions: