IMG file for flashing to disk

Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:48 pm

Is anybody interested in an IMG file of the RouterOS installation? This would mean you can use DD or Windows Disk image writer, to shoot the IMG file directly to your CF card, or external disk, then boot from it, and instllation will commence. No more CD or Netinstall needed (Netinstall basically has the same ability built in, but you must be able to run Netinstall)

If you think this is great, let us know, we will add it to the download page as standard.

TrollMan · Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:59 pm

That would be great!

c0d3rSh3ll · Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:36 am

That would be great!

+1

djdrastic · Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:54 am

Would be really great if you guys did this Normis.

NetworkPro · Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:25 am

I use this method - its faster and more predictable. This will be the install stage - fat32 with the npk files right?

omega-00 · Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:35 am

+1 from me

Spazmo · Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:55 pm

This is exactly what I'm looking for...

Please release one ASAP!

Any idea when to expect it?

samsung172 · Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:24 am

+1 from me

samotoka · Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:41 am

and +1 from me

Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:01 pm

we will have an IMG file for download in the next v6 rc4 release (for x86)

Spazmo · Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:40 am

Thank you so much!

Campano · Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:13 pm

great idea Normis

Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:33 pm

v6rc5 has the image file. it is on our webpage. please somebody test it.

Spazmo · Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:12 am

v6rc5 has the image file. it is on our webpage. please somebody test it.

Why isn't there one for v6.0rc6? At least I can't find it.
I had no problems with the image file you provided for v6.0rc5 by the way!

Edit: Oh, I just noticed the changelog says

*) fixed problem - netinstall for x86 did not work;

Maybe the image file is superfluous now...

samir494 · Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:40 am

v6rc5 has the image file. it is on our webpage. please somebody test it.

good news form you normis,

can share a download link for the same ?

Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:42 am

During upgrade of the download page (you can see that it looks differerent now), we have lost the image link. Sorry, we will fix it. For now, here is the link:

http://download2.mikrotik.com/routeros/ ... 6.0rc6.zip

Chupaka · Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:10 am

and - all files (including disk image) can be found in Torrent

Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:26 am

Thanks for this Normis.
Very useful.

prawira · Fri May 16, 2014 7:31 pm

how about the dd command ?
is that just "dd if=install-image-6.12.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M" ?

Paul

prawira · Sat May 24, 2014 10:46 am

hi there,

i download http://download2.mikrotik.com/routeros/ ... e-6.12.zip file, extract and dd the .img file with command

dd if=install-image-6.13.img of=/dev/sdb

but my sdcard won't boot the ROS.

i did try to install from the iso file into the same sdcard but still no luck

the hardware use is RPI rev B

Paul

docmarius · Sat May 24, 2014 11:35 am

[...]
but my sdcard won't boot the ROS.

i did try to install from the iso file into the same sdcard but still no luck

the hardware use is RPI rev B

AFAIK the image file is for the x86 architecture.
The RPI has an ARM processor core.
So this is not possible.

@normis: Maybe the image file name should include the architecture for which it was built in its file name.