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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by jandrese on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:36AM (#50442712)
This is one of those things that SystemD can make more complicated. When you DD a disk image on something it rewrites the disk header, which can cause SystemD to reparse the header and do some weird stuff with the device that causes the write to fail or get corrupted. Etcher works around that problem.

That said, the more lightweight "Disk Image Creator" also gets around this problem without dragging in an entire self contained browser.

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by dmitrygr on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:29PM (#50443411)
What is this "systemd" you speak of? Getting in between a man-as-root and his dev nodes? Sounds most un-unixlike.
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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by functionmouse on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:13PM (#50444832)
It's IBM's way of embrace-extend-extinguish'ing freedesktop
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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by skrellm on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:10PM (#50443931)
> That said, the more lightweight "Disk Image Creator" also gets around this problem without dragging in an entire self contained browser.

Exactly my point. Also that self contained browser hides a spyware (telemetry without notice and opt out), so illegal in the EU.

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by anthk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:20PM (#50448675)
ddrescue always works.
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