SD card programing -

[Rick Stevens]

On 04/29/2015 07:46 AM, bobgoodwin at wildblue.net wrote:
>
> I just received a Raspberry Pi 2b as a birthday gift. Apparently the
> operating system must be stored on an micro-SD card, the o/s can be
> downloaded but I have to get the SD card and whatever is required to
> program it from Fedora 21 or 22, or buy one preprogrammed.
>
> Perhaps someone with experience there can enlighten as to what I need to
> order to do this?

I have a Raspberry Pi (B+ model). I can give some ideas.

1. I bought micro SD cards that come with an adapter that converts
micro SD to regular SD. I bought the fastest SDs I could find, but
you can probably go slower/cheaper.

2. My laptop has an SD card slot on it, but I also have a USB card
adapter (SD/MMC/others) that works just fine. About $15 US.

3. I've tried several OSes. The most common is Raspian (a Debian-based
distro). I've also used OpenELEC (essentially a purpose-built media
center package) and Pidora (a Fedora 20-based package). They all come
as ISOs that you simply "dd" to the raw SD device (NOT a partition),
e.g.:

	dd if=pidora.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

4. Just plug the micro SD into the Pi and power it up. It should boot
up to the desktop (Raspian and Pidora) or the media center (OpenELEC).

Hope that helps.
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