SD card programing -

[Terry Polzin]

tail -f /var/log/messages with device un plugged and while plugging in
you'll see the device get picked up if it's recognized.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 29/04/15 22:05, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>>
>> On 04/29/2015 07:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>> .
> .
>
> Ok, I give up, what do I do next?
>
> I have a card reader with a GE brand name on it
>
> [root at box10 ~]# lsusb
>
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer
>
> And I see the following for sdd  through sdg -
>
> [root at box10 ~]# ll /dev/sdd
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 48 May  1 10:10 /dev/sdd
>
> Which I imagine relate to receptacles on the device. First I have no idea
> which /dev/sdx is the one the micro-SD in adapter is plugged into or how to
> identify it? Also I am not confident that the SD device is even being
> recognized?
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Bob
>
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> box10  FEDORA-22b/64bit LINUX XFCE
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