Not able to produce USB image of ROCK

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I’ve tried multiple times, but Balena Etcher fails to produce a bootable USB image of the ROCK OS. The Etcher appears to successfully decompress the " . . . .img.gz" file, but then stops the flash process and comes up with this error notification: “ATTENTION: The writer process ended unexpectedly. Please try again, and if the problem persists, contact the Etcher team”. I tried with two different Windows PCs several times. I’ve previously installed ROCK as the core on a NUC and also on another NUC as an endpoint, so I’m not sure what’s really going on unless there’s a problem with Etcher or with the current ROCK image. Any ideas?

EDIT: SOLUTION (contributed by Rugby) was to use Rufus instead of Balena Etcher to flash the ROCK OS image to a USB stick. Seems that, intermittently, a lot of people have had issues with Balena Etcher.

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Have you changed the media you are trying to write to?

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I’ve tried with 2 different USB sticks. They are both large USB3 sticks - does it matter if they are formatted FAT(32) vs NTFS? Maybe I need to use just a simple smaller USB2?

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I’ve had problems writing ROCK using Etcher.

I think (it was awhile ago) I solved the problem by re-downloading the ROCK file. Did you try that?

FWIW.

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Try using Rufus instead of Etcher

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Decompress the image before using it, I always use etcher and never had an issue with rock, but I decompress to just have the .img first using 7zip on windows.

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Slim:

Yes, several times, but no go.

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CrystalGipsy:

I finally tried that late last night, but same result. Etcher prematurely terminated with the same message.

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Rugby:

Bingo! Easy Sleazy. Rufus worked great. Balena Etcher always seems to be having issues. Anywhose, thank all of you who contributed, and, in this case, Rufus was the solution.

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YAY. I’ve always used Rufus, which, by the way, was the original software to use in the first ROCK installation guide. Not sure why it changed, but, when I had weird results from Etcher, I went back to Rufus and have been golden since.

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Never ever had issues on Mac with etcher…just for the record.

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I don’t understand why etcher keeps getting recommended. The macOS version is 226.4MB big, ApplePiBaker is 8.4MB and works just as well… I really wonder what those extra 218MB are up to?

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