category: Help h3. Overview SDCreate is a utility designed to help people with the task of installing RISC OS ROM images onto SD cards, for use with the OMAP3 and OMAP4 ports of RISC OS. If you attempt to create an SD card manually then there are many places where things can go wrong, either due to user error or operating system quirks. But if you use SDCreate to create the image for you then you can (almost) guarantee that it will boot without any trouble. h3. Using SDCreate Before you use SDCreate to create an SD card image, you may need to track down some extra files/software, as listed under [[Generic OMAP port setup information]]. Images can be created on almost any RISC OS computer with >32MB of spare disc space. If you're using a RISC OS 3 or RISC OS 4 computer, you will need at least version 1.28 of the FrontEnd module and version 1.52 of DDEUtils: up-to-date versions of these modules can be found in the [[Software information: System resources|System resources]] archive. If you want to use SDCreate to write the image to an SD card, then you'll need to be using a RISC OS 5 machine with a USB card reader and the USB mass storage drivers (SCSISoftUSB). Alternatively, you can copy the SD card image to a Windows/Linux/Mac/etc. PC and write the image to an SD card using any number of the free utilities that are available for those platforms (see below). For further usage and technical information, consult the application !Help file. h3. Utilities for other platforms If you don't own a working RISC OS machine and therefore can't use SDCreate to create an SD card image, then consult the application !Help file for information as to what files SDCreate places into the images. This should allow you to create a working card manually. If you've created an image file using SDCreate, but can't use SDCreate itself to write the image to a card, then you can use one of the following Windows/Mac/Linux utilities to write the image for you: * "Win32DiskImager":https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager (Windows only) ** Just make sure the file has a @.img@ extension for Win32DiskImager to find it * "UNetbootbin":https://unetbootin.github.io (Windows/Mac/Linux) * "Etcher":https://www.balena.io/etcher/ (Windows/Mac/Linux) h3. Issues If you are experiencing problems with this software, first check to see if a ticket has been raised on the "Bug tracker":/tracker/tickets/ page. You may also want to visit the "Bugs":/forum/forums/4 forum. If you have a general query related to the software, you can enquire on the "Community Support":/forum/forums/11 forum. h3. History of the component To view the release history for versions available on the ROOL web site, visit the "GitLab Commits page":CommitURL (releases are "tagged" with the version number). h3. Obtaining the software This software is usually supplied with "OMAP3":/content/downloads/beagleboard "OMAP4":/content/downloads/pandaboard and "iMX6":/content/downloads/imx6 ROM builds. To obtain the source code, visit the "GitLab source":SourceURL page. --- [CommitURL]https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/RiscOS/Sources/Utilities/SDCreate/commits/master [SourceURL]https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/RiscOS/Sources/Utilities/SDCreate