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Pi noob pt 2

OK, got all the periphs and conns and unit seems to be working. But, I get an error window:

"SD card has now been formated ready for NOOBS installation. Please re-copy the NOOBS files onto the card and reboot."

....and when I close it a panel comes up with these 4 choices:

Edit OS Edit config(e) Online help(h) Exit(esc)

Problem is, the first two are ghosted.

I formatted a 4G class4 SDHC card via an XP box. I put the NOOBS files on it from a Slackware box by mounting the card (-t auto) and copying the entire zip file to it, then uzipping it.

What now? Ferget NOOBS and try plain wheezy? I got a brand new 16G class10 SDHC card jes in case. Format from linux? Like I said, the Pi seems to be working. Running to an HDMI TV and display is excellent. Mouse and KB work. Jes can't seem to load the NOOBS software. ????

nb

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notbob
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On 9 Sep 2013 22:38:45 GMT, notbob declaimed the following:

Formatted as what? FAT32? Maybe it needs to be ext3 (a format popular for Linux).

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Dennis Lee Bieber

FAT32 (or possibly FAT16) is what is correct for NOOBS. It specifically uses that to make it simple to install using a non-Linux system.

Once the card is put in a Pi and booted, the NOOBS installer will repartitioned the card as needed.

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Dom

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:33:14 +0100, Dom declaimed the following:

Ah...

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Dennis Lee Bieber

Ahhh....yes

formatting link

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hamilton

The r-pi needs a (small) fat partitition for the boot images, and then some native linux root partition. ext3 is fine, as is ext2, ext4 and probably other native unix-partitions that preserve case in filenames, have soft and hard links and a basic permssion set.

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Reply to
Morten Reistad

Yes, and NOOBS appears to do this for you:

formatting link

Reply to
hamilton

A follow up:

Seems an XP format is insufficient. I formatted my old SDHC 4G class

4 card using SD Formatter and voilá!, everything from loading NOOBS on card to installing OS of choice on pi proceeded without a hitch.

formatting link

nb

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notbob

on

Isn't odd that things work as expected when you follow the instructions...

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Dave Liquorice

Dave Liquorice wrote

I used Gparted on a Lubuntu system successfully.

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John Rickman Iyonix

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