SD card programing -

[poma]

On 30.04.2015 01:00, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 04/29/2015 09:05 AM, poma wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> https://player.vimeo.com/video/90518800
> 
> Bob, buy a MicroSD card that comes with the adapter to convert it to
> a normal SD card and get that SD<---->USB dongle.
> 
> 1. Plug the MicroSD card into its adapter.
> 
> 2. Plug the SD card adapter (with MicroSD card in it) into the USB
> dongle.
> 
> 3. Plug the dongle into your desktop computer and note which device the
> SD card shows up as (probably /dev/sdb, but have a look at the output
> of dmesg to be sure).
> 
> 4. Download the ISO that you want.


http://www.digitaldreamtime.co.uk/images/Fidora/21/
Pi2B-Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-21-5-20150219-1-sda.raw.xz

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2015-February/009054.html


> 
> 5. As root, "dd if=name-of-iso-file.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M" (assuming the
> SD card shows up as /dev/sdb...change as needed)
> 
> 6. When dd ends, unplug the USB dongle, pull out the SD card adapter,
> pull the MicroSD from the adapter, stick it in your RPi and power up the
> RPi.
> 
> 7. Voila!
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