I forked Rpi-imager and thought it might be an improvment for you over balena Etcher

balenaEtcher
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Hello fellow developers,
I am the creator of OctoPi and CustomPiOS and quite a few other distributions. And I noticed you have your own neat Ether build.

I thought you might like to know I recently forked rpi-imager, because I think it makes sense to have a community-maintain list of images and features, while pulling changes from mainstream. I like the concept that the flashser connects online and pulls the images, rather than the user has to download and then feed the images in to the sketcher themselves.

I just wanted to say that if you want to use the pi imager fork you are welcome:

You can PR your own images to it using the pi-imager-web repo:

Would love to hear your thoughts about this as I see you maintain quite a lot of images yourselves.

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I like the idea of having more support for unofficial OS’s. Not exactly the same thing as etcher but something that is helpful for new users.

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Whats your process for the community adding more images?

i’d like to see dietpi as a addition.

Suggestion:

  • add to the bottom of the unofficial os’s list with link to process to add a new one

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thanks for sharing
best,

  • oran
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Hey oran,
Thanks for your suggestion!
I opened an issue for this here:

And for now I added instruction on the pi-imager github page:

I also opened an issue on dietpi github asking if they want it there;