Question: Is it possible to use an .img instead of a zipped one

[masseelch]

Looks like it is not. Would be a nice feature though. I do a lot of builds and they could be fastened up a lot if the image decompressing step on start would be skipped when providing an already unzipped image.

I can provide (or at least try to) a contribution.

[masseelch]

I see there is this in custompios:

  if [[ $BASE_ZIP_IMG =~ \.img$ ]]; then
    # if the image is already extracted copy over
    cp "$BASE_ZIP_IMG" .
  else
    7za x -aoa "$BASE_ZIP_IMG"
  fi

But i am not able to give the correct path to my extracted image. I always get Error: could not find image: ....

[masseelch]

Got it!

For everyone landing here: The custompios does its magic in the workspace folder. Adding this to my config:

export BASE_ZIP_IMG=../image/2021-01-11-raspios-buster-armhf.img

made it work.

[guysoft]

Thanks for reporting, if you think this should go anywhere in the documentation then you are welcome to put in the wiki or wherever you were searching the the solution.

[masseelch]

Might be a good idea to put a comment into config. This was the first place i was looking.