I 'm going to be presenting at a workshop for raspberry pi and I need about 20 micro sd cards w...

[G+_James Hughes]

I'm going to be presenting at a workshop for raspberry pi and I need about 20 micro sd cards with a custom image (a basic image with modifications and some data added). Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ?? or anyone who knows, what is the best/easiest way to create the custom image? I have a MacBook pro with etcher to write the images. Thanks in advance.

[G+_Dan Hockey]

Berry boot has the ability of cloning an install.

 

youtube.com - How to clone Raspberry Pi Micro SD card that is on Berryboot

 

http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot

 

[G+_James Hughes]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to give the Info in this video a go first as it seems to be the simplest:

[G+_Mike Lambert]

You could also look into pibakery.org - PiBakery - The blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi if you want to automate the build prior to cloning.

[G+_Chad Lawson]

I'll second PiBakery above. Not knowing exactly what you need to customize above hostname, I suspect this should do it.

[G+_Chad Lawson]

Alternately, you could use and stock image that includes a script that runs at first boot and calls a central sever to download a CSV of the various Pi devices in your fleet. Each then gets it's record and makes the necessary changes.

 

This idea came to me because I do something similar with imaging computers. Each machine gets a generic image and a script on first boot gets the machine-specific settings from a central server.

[G+_Steven Werds]

the easy way to copy a disk to an image

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=CDImage.iso