balena-cli/doc/os/install.md
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os install [device]

Use this command to write an operating system image to a device.

Note that this command requires admin privileges.

If device is omitted, you will be prompted to select a device interactively.

Notice this command asks for confirmation interactively. You can avoid this by passing the --yes boolean option.

You can quiet the progress bar by passing the --quiet boolean option.

You may have to unmount the device before attempting this operation.

See the drives command to get a list of all connected devices to your machine and their respective ids.

In Mac OS X:

$ sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/xxx

In GNU/Linux:

$ sudo umount /dev/xxx

Examples:

$ resin os install rpi.iso /dev/disk2

Options

--yes, -y

confirm non interactively