[Freedombox-discuss] extracting the software

[Joseph Nuthalapati]

On 02/05/22 22:52, Frank Bakewell via Freedombox-discuss wrote:
> Hi
> We are trying to download the Freedom Box software onto a blank SD card 
> for our Raspberry Pi 3B. We have watched the video on the download 
> section on your site and have downloaded the software. The next step in 
> the video instructs us to right click and select extract but when we do 
> this we don't have this option. Do you have any ideas? Do we need to 
> download a third party app such as WinZip etc. in order to extract?
> 
> Regards,
> Frank.
> 
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Hello Frank,

Since you mentioned WinZip, I will assume that you have downloaded the 
image on a Windows machine. If you are going to use the software Balena 
Etcher[1] mentioned in the video, you don't have to do the extraction 
step. It will accept the compressed image.

1. https://www.balena.io/etcher/

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Regards,
Joseph Nuthalapati