Solved - Re: Error with xz

[Robert Moskowitz]

It was ownership that xz wsa complaining about.  Changed that and ran 
again.  No errors and xzcat piped to /dev/sdb gives me a bootable card.

More progress.

On 08/10/2014 10:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 08/10/2014 09:46 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> First I dd an SD card:
>>
>> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/rgm/arm/rsel-minimal.img bs=4096 
>> conv=notrunc,noerror
>>
>> Then I ran xz which produced an error:
>>
>> xz -k rsel-minimal.img
>> xz: rsel-minimal.img.xz: Cannot set the file group: Operation not 
>> permitted
>>
>> Is this because the sudo made the owner of .img root?  Do I ignore 
>> the error or go back and change the owner of .img?
>
> xz -t rsel-minimal.img.xz
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> did not report any errors...
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>>
>> I will want to make this .img available to others to download and 
>> build their own SDcards for booting on Cubieboards.
>>
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