Prepare your SD card
Partition the SD card
Windows 10 Partitioning
Using built-in GUI ‘Disk Management’ feature
TBD
Using diskpart
TBD
Using PowerShell
TBD
Linux (many distros) Partitioning
GUI
Using command line (CLI)
Partitioning on the Linux command line
Creating a filesystem on the Linux command line
Mac OS Partitioning
TBD
Copy the tarball contents to ‘boot’ partition
Tarball extract on Windows 10
You will need to install a program such a 7-zip
TBD
Tarball extract on Linux (many distros)
Copy install tarball to boot partition using GUI file manager
Using CLI commands
Assuming you have mounted your new boot partition on /mnt you can (as root) do:
tar -C /mnt -xzf /path/to/install-tarball.tar.gz
Tarball extract on Mac OS
TBD