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The .img files can be directly written to a microSD/SD card (minimal recommended size: 4 GB) using dd, once uncompressed from the ZSTD container. The SD card needs to be unmounted first.
The .img files can be directly written to a microSD/SD card (minimal recommended size: 4 GB) using dd, once uncompressed from the ZSTD container. The SD card needs to be unmounted first.


Once the NixOS image file is downloaded, run the following command to install the image onto the SD Card, replace <code>/dev/mmcblk0</code> with the path to the SD card (use <code>dmesg</code> to find it out).  
Once the NixOS image file is downloaded, run the following command to install the image onto the SD Card, replace <code>/dev/mmcblk0</code> with the path to the SD card (use <code>dmesg</code> to find it out) and image.img with the path to the image.  


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sudo dd if=nixos-sd-image-23.05pre482417.9c7cc804254-aarch64-linux.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
sudo dd if=image.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
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