SD card programing -

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 16:05:17 UTC 2015


On 29.04.2015 17:39, bobgoodwin at wildblue.net wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/29/15 11:19, Greg Woods wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net 
>> <mailto:bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     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-016G-AFFP/dp/B007JRB0SS/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1430320408&sr=1-3&keywords=sd+card
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> .
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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