# Attempting to flash HASSOS from Home Assistant to my 16gb Micro SD

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/attempting-to-flash-hassos-from-home-assistant-to-my-16gb-micro-sd/189136>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Tags:** raspberrypi3\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/attempting-to-flash-hassos-from-home-assistant-to-my-16gb-micro-sd/189136 "2020-09-14T23:00:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![short4bmoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@short4bmoney](https://forums.balena.io/u/short4bmoney)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/attempting-to-flash-hassos-from-home-assistant-to-my-16gb-micro-sd/189136/1 "2020-09-14T23:00:54Z")

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I receive the following error when attempting to flash HASSOS from Home Assistant to a 16gb MicroSD card:

```auto
{
    "stack":"Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open '/Users/[...]/Documents/Learn/Raspberry Pi/hassos_rpi3-2.12.img'",
    "message":"EPERM: operation not permitted, open '/Users/[...]/Documents/Learn/Raspberry Pi/hassos_rpi3-2.12.img'",
    "name":"Error",
    "code":"EPERM",
    "syscall":"open",
    "errno":-1,
    "image":"hassos_rpi3-2.12.img"
}

```

I attempt to open the `.img` file directly but my machine doesn’t provides the error reason: _no mountable file systems_.

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**Author:** ![xginn8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/8baadc/32.png) [@xginn8](https://forums.balena.io/u/xginn8)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/attempting-to-flash-hassos-from-home-assistant-to-my-16gb-micro-sd/189136/4 "2020-09-15T00:02:42Z")

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Hi there,

Have you already tried running `balenaEtcher` as an admin user? If not, please give that a shot and let us know how it goes!

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**Author:** ![short4bmoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@short4bmoney](https://forums.balena.io/u/short4bmoney)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/attempting-to-flash-hassos-from-home-assistant-to-my-16gb-micro-sd/189136/6 "2020-09-15T05:06:08Z")

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That did the trick! thank you