SD card programing -

[bobgoodwin at wildblue.net]

On 04/29/15 12:39, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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At this point everything helps!

I will start a new section in my notes and save this.

Thanks,

Bob

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