On 04/29/15 11:19, Greg Woods wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net
> <mailto:bobgoodwin@wildblue.net>> wrote:
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> I have to get the SD card and whatever is required to program it
> from Fedora 21 or 22, or buy one preprogrammed.
>
>
> Pretty much any old SD card would do. I have this one:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Memory-Frustration-Free-Packaging--SDSDB-01...
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> By far the most popular OS for Rasperry Pi is Raspbian (a Debian
> derivative). There is a lot more third party software available for
> this. But there is also Pidora (a Fedora variant) which I have
> successfully installed and tested.
>
> I currently have an older Pi model B in service as my Bacula storage
> server, with an external 4TB USB drive for online backups, plus a USB
> enclosure that allows swapping drives to use for archival backups.
> Works great. Pi's have lots of uses.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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Well I can see that it has to be the small micro SD type care if it's
going to fit the socket and case that came with it.
But what I am really asking I guess is how do I connect the SD card to a
desktop computer to install Pidora or whatever? The only thing I see
that accepts the SD card is the Raspberry board.
Bob