You need a whole USB flash drive to install the system disk？

balenaEtcher
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You need a whole USB flash drive to install the system disk？ * I think it is ok to use only one partition of usb drive to install

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what should I do

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  • Is there any way I can choose only one USB drive partition?
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Hi

Can you tell us what you are trying to do here? Are you flashing the TU100Pro drive with some OS?

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I want to have a Kali Linux on my USB drive and space to store some other files

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  • The ideal state is F disk for the system and G disk for the other files
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Etcher currently does not support flashing individual partitions.

What you could do is use the SDK directly: GitHub - balena-io-modules/etcher-sdk

to write to the partition with:

ts-node ./examples/multi-destination.ts [source file] [partition location]

I’m not actually sure how this will work on windows though, because I’m not sure how to write to an individual partition as a block device, so this might take some time to get it to work.

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This is planned for a future release of etcher though, so it will eventually be implemented.