Creating the SD Card

Pick your platform to get specific instructions for creating the Monster Rootpack SD card.

Windows	Mac	Linux

Windows

Creating the Monster Rootpack SD card using a Windows-based machine is easy!

Things you'll need

1. A USB SD card reader. Built-in card readers in laptops are not known to always work, if you follow these instructions and get an error, try using a USB card reader
2. win32diskimager from here (right click link and save)
3. A 128mb or larger SD card

Directions

1. Download win32diskimager and extract it somewhere you can access.
2. Download and extract the proper version of Rootpack that you wish to write to your SD card. You should end up with a .img file, NOT a .tar.gz file!
3. Run win32diskimager, and click the folder icon.
4. Navigate to where you extracted the .img file and select it.
5. Click "Write" in win32diskimager and wait for the process to complete.

Once you're done, head over to the Instructions#Using_the_Rootpack

Mac

Writing the Monster Rootpack blah blah blah

Things you'll need

1. blah?
2. blah blah.

Directions

1. Luck. You need it.

Linux

Imaging the Rootpack is simple! All you need is a little commandline goodness.

Things you'll need

1. The proper Rootpack for your SD card.
2. A keyboard and mouse. Linux has the rest.

Directions

1. Extract the image file with tar xvf [filename]. This should leave you with a .img file.
2. Issue mount in a terminal
3. Identify your SD card (usually a high number drive, such as /dev/sde)
4. Unmount your SD card using umount /dev/sdX where X is your drive letter as observed earlier.
5. Write the SD card image with dd if=[path to .img file] of=/dev/sdX bs=1M Note: omit the partition number! If you write the image to /dev/sde1 (for example), it will not work. Remove the "1" to write the image to the whole SD card.

Using the Rootpack

bleh.