How to Flash images to drives

The dd methed

This should work on all linux systems,

first you want to find the name of your device run

lsblk

it should give you a list of drives on your system look for the one with the appropriate size and rember the final letters should be something like sdb or mmcblk0,

Then if your file just has .img at the end then just run this

sudo dd bs=1M if=<your image file> of=/dev/sdx # < your drive

but if has .img.gz then you need to run this first to uncompress it to .img

tar -xf Armbian_24.5.0_amlogic_s905w_bullseye_6.1.87_server_2024.05.02.img.gz

Graphical imager

There are meny graphical imagers available but i would recomend Raspberry Pi Imager as its reliable and works well rufus is anouther good option for windows users

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

https://rufus.ie/en/

Tips

For desktop OS installers you can use Ventoy to have multiable os installers available on one drive

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html