Linux has great command line utilities for copying binary data directly to a drive. The best tool for this is dd. Open up a Linux terminal and run these commands journalctl -f Put your CF card into a reader attached to your Linux PC. You should see the device name pop up exit journalctl with ctrl-c Decompress your image sudo xz -d Write your image to the CF card sudo dd if= of= bs=1M example: sudo dd if=vamp-Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-22-20150627-sda.raw of=/dev/sdb bs=1M